A final Flu Haiku

This morning [insert word appropriate for polite company that means “sucked” here]. We got our predicted four to five inches of powdery snow overnight. It was the kind of wispy stuff that you shovel with a broom. The problem is, as fast as you swept it away, the winds blew more in. In fact, it…

Helene. Told two years ago she’d never walk again, she got pissed at the doctor who made the pronouncement and decided to prove him wrong. Today’s torture session is proof of just how wrong that blasted doctor was. She’s four foot eleven inches of exuberant energy. She’s very nice, very encouraging, and very demanding. *sigh*…

The Prof has started his sabbatical and is beginning to take classes at Big-Self-Important-Ivy-League University. He’ll also be taking some classes at Smaller-Less-Important-But-Still-Snooty Big City University in another week, when their semester begins. Between his preparations to re-enter the world of higher education from the other side of the mirror and his recent travelling, it…

Has the Prof read my journal yet, I’m asked. He has, at least as far back as the beginning of the year (don’t know if he’s made it further yet or not). He particularly liked the entry with the sequence where Clueless Wonder finally came off his diet and Warrier Princess tried to steal some…

Thanks to sweetstar1974 for bringing Moonriddengirl’s entry to my attention in which she mentioned this self test:Inner Self Test. I’m suspicious of these suckers, but it never stops me from trying one out! Your profile: Chairman. By completing the list of questions, you have indicated the aspects of your personality which, in your opinion, are…

I’ll rescue them, but four is the limit. In the (hopefully far distant) future, when it’s time to adopt another cat, The Honorable Mathematician gets to pick. It’s his turn. The professor in my clinical behavior class at school said that the official “crazy cat lady” limit is over six cats. I still have a…