Sitter couldn’t come today, and the Professor is occupied at school from morning til well after dinner. I have about 35 pages of a paper to write, 35 difficult pages of a difficult paper that I’ve had to re write and re-structure twice now, and I have about 9 days to do it. I wish…
Category: Liam
THREE
ONE In the pre-dawn hours of a glorious October day, I got in my car and drove five minutes to the start of my first organized race. And then drove forty minutes looking for a parking spot. Who knew getting there an hour early was not early enough? In any case, after much travail I…
Listless
It’s just one of those days, those days where I have a million things to do but can’t settle on which so I wander around the house wondering if I should train for Saturday’s half marathon (it’s my taper week, but I still have to get a few miles in), or advance the Moebius strip/laundry…
The Nearness of You
Today was my first day of school, and thus I spent the morning hugging and how-was-your-summering and feeling moderately smug superiority directed at the panicked 1Ls milling about. And all through the day, his face flickered in and out of my field of vision, bright brief flashes, the Northern Lights across the expanse of my…
Eh-Wa! Chup-up! Where Are You!
And with an abrupt and unpleasant Monday, we return to our regularly scheduled programming from a fabulous week at the beach with The Professor’s Parents and The Professor’s Sister and The Niece. I’ll go ahead and reveal that we call these folks D.D. (or DeeDee, not sure how it should be spelled – deciding grandparental…