Month: January 2008

Well, I was sitting in the bathroom stall today on campus, and there’s the usual assortment of sexual innuendoes written on the wall. The kind that you would expect to find in pretty much every bathroom stall across the country. Of course there were other more helpful tips like, “Don’t forget to drop your kids off at school” or “Mike Gravel ’08”. But it got me thinking… was this kind of drawl unique to men’s bathrooms? What do women write on the stalls of their bathrooms? Inquiring minds…

Well, as everyone probably knows, the weather in SF has been horrible for the past week or so. Gale force winds on Friday brought in 4 inches of rain and brought down trees and branches all over the city. It was a mess. The city is still not even remotely close to being clean…

Last night, I was feeling really unmotivated to return home. I had been biking in nastiness all week. The return trip home meant biking in the cold. In the rain. At night. Up a large hill. For the Nth time this week. I just sat in my office sorta gathering my will and strength to mentally prepare myself.

But mentally prepare myself I did. But as I was packing up to leave, I had an “Oh Shit!” moment. I had forgotten my headlamp at home. It was 8pm. It was dark. And cold. And rainy. GRRRRRR!!! No my motivation is really in the dumps and I’m feeling blue. I tried calling Arif, since he lives close to my work, to see if I could bum a ride and a place to sleep, but no cigar. Voicemail. My mood swung further south.

I managed to limp my way to the closest train station. (It’s only down the street, and it’s fairly lighted, so no worries) From there I called all my friends in the city begging for a ride. I’m not about to ride 4 miles home in the dark in the city! Stan – nope. He was in South Bay. Christina – voicemail. Mai-Sie – voicemail. Hrm… I look in my pocket and I have about 15 bucks. Is that enough for a cab? Barely? I was unsure.

In the end, Mai-Sie called me back about 10 minutes into the train ride and she gave me a ride home from the train station. Christina also ended up calling me once I got to SF also, and offered me a ride too, but Mai-Sie was on her way already. I went home, moved my car (good thing I didn’t stay at Arif’s or I would have gotten a parking ticket today), took a HOT shower, and made myself some yummy from scratch pancakes (Thanks Ann.), bacon, and a tall glass of milk. My mood was better knowing that I have some people I can count on in a pinch. 🙂

On New Year’s Day, we moved a bed downstairs to the study so Edda has a place to nap downstairs. We moved all the books upstairs to the bedroom which looked like this for a few days.

We lit 66 candles on Christmas Day to celebrate Dad’s birthday.

On of the things I dislike the most about having a special needs kids is the constant guilt that one has about not spending every minute of the day doing some sort of therapy. Nothing can just be just “for fun”. There is always more stuff to do, more stuff to try and things are so slow with Edda that sometimes, well, often I just throw my hands in the air. Since I’ve been working, I haven’t been in touch with her school, I don’t know what’s going on, I know I should call them more and figure out what they are working on, but I’m just lame.

I just want to whine a little! I’ll be all better tomorrow, I promise.

Jeremy is starting his real job tomorrow! Wish him luck!

(PS Donald, I love the little flash.)

New Year’s Day project.

Our tree is Patent 6572068

Be there to witness them crushing the Seattle Seahawks. They are on a 4 game win streak, and running on pure emotion from the murder of their teammate… as Vince would say, “Go Redskins!” (with a slight lisp. ha)

Remember how I mentioned that Rett Syndrome symptoms were reversed in mice? Wired Magazine named the research one of the top ten science breakthroughs of 2007! Pretty cool.