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Dec. 21st, 2004 05:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jdmkleini have such a dislike for the nursing gig. i keep trying to think up excuses not to go. So far i haven't succumed and the excuses keep getting more far-fetched, so i think i'm safe. After today there will only be four more hours. And the final, which will get settled today. Those four hours will be amazingly long.
Is today the solstice? i think. Sarah told me winter begins at 6:42, but i don't remember a.m. or p.m. It's nearly 6 here, and no red in the sky. Of course it could be the clouds.
i don't think i will be calling my family on Christmas Day, this year. i was listening to VOA on the way home yesterday and there was a music program of classic holiday songs; singers like Burl Ives, Nat King Cole, Eartha Kitt. i love those songs. Hearing them made me very homesick. Mother is a singer. There was always music in our house and those are the singers i grew up on. Anyway, hearing those songs made me realize that i had better get something going for that day or i'm going to be a sad case. i've wanted to paint the tiles in my bathroom. Saturday, may just be the day to do them. i think i will wait to call on New Year's Eve. That's not such a family day, probably won't be such an emotional occasion. Why should i rain on the family parade?
Max has developed a new habit of putting his head on my lap and doing a low, deep growl to get my attention. As if just his head on my lap wasn't enough. If i touch him, he's fine. If i ignore him, a paw comes up. i haven't been able to ignore him beyond the paw. This is a needy dog. He must have validation for his being on this earth. i wonder what happened to him to make him so. i don't make him suffer too long, i pet him and hug on him and talk to him and then he goes, turns three or four circles and lays down one of his many blankets. He's good to go for another 45 or 50 minutes.
i need a new book. That may be on my list of important things to do today. i probably won't get it read until after the first of the year. Tomorrow the research projects come in. i love this class, but have felt out of touch with it this semester. i wonder if my dislike for the nursing gig is a part of it. i seem to be wondering about a lot of things this morning. i wonder why that is.
One of my students said she would send me pictures of the floods last week. i wonder if she will come through.
Is today the solstice? i think. Sarah told me winter begins at 6:42, but i don't remember a.m. or p.m. It's nearly 6 here, and no red in the sky. Of course it could be the clouds.
i don't think i will be calling my family on Christmas Day, this year. i was listening to VOA on the way home yesterday and there was a music program of classic holiday songs; singers like Burl Ives, Nat King Cole, Eartha Kitt. i love those songs. Hearing them made me very homesick. Mother is a singer. There was always music in our house and those are the singers i grew up on. Anyway, hearing those songs made me realize that i had better get something going for that day or i'm going to be a sad case. i've wanted to paint the tiles in my bathroom. Saturday, may just be the day to do them. i think i will wait to call on New Year's Eve. That's not such a family day, probably won't be such an emotional occasion. Why should i rain on the family parade?
Max has developed a new habit of putting his head on my lap and doing a low, deep growl to get my attention. As if just his head on my lap wasn't enough. If i touch him, he's fine. If i ignore him, a paw comes up. i haven't been able to ignore him beyond the paw. This is a needy dog. He must have validation for his being on this earth. i wonder what happened to him to make him so. i don't make him suffer too long, i pet him and hug on him and talk to him and then he goes, turns three or four circles and lays down one of his many blankets. He's good to go for another 45 or 50 minutes.
i need a new book. That may be on my list of important things to do today. i probably won't get it read until after the first of the year. Tomorrow the research projects come in. i love this class, but have felt out of touch with it this semester. i wonder if my dislike for the nursing gig is a part of it. i seem to be wondering about a lot of things this morning. i wonder why that is.
One of my students said she would send me pictures of the floods last week. i wonder if she will come through.
