orichalcum: (teaching)
orichalcum ([personal profile] orichalcum) wrote2009-01-05 03:54 pm

Bads, Goods, and Weirds

Bad: You know a cold has gotten even more unfun when your poor wrecked nose starts bleeding...

Good: I felt the Manticore kick this morning!

Bad: This @%@#$@%@%@#$@ cold has meant that I didn't get much work or writing done this break.

Good: I'm immensely looking forward to teaching my next course, which has an awesomely funny professor - who advised me and the other way cool fellow not to do too much work this quarter and to focus on our academic writing, not the "benighted little angels."

Bad: I'm not going to my academic conference this weekend, due to, well, a lack of reasons to go.

Good: I'm not going to my academic conference this weekend, which, frankly, is not exactly a barrel of laughs at any point.

Bad: My teeth are still kinda tingly and hurty in cold weather.

Good: I didn't get a root canal over break, because apparently I don't need one. I may need implants for my mutant baby teeth, but they can't do that till 6 months after I give birth, anyway.

Bad: I'm feeling kinda overwhelmed by social commitments right now.

Good: I get to see lots of awesome people in the next two weeks!

Weirds: General piece of advice for folks and their siblings: When submitting an email address for use by an alumni college interviewer, "insanejohn@gmailcom" (actual first name changed) is not necessarily the right way to send a first impression. While "bookcrazy" is slightly better, it still leads me to associate you with mental illness rather than, say, the qualities I'm really looking for in a future student of my institution.

My classes this quarter have a 2-1 or, in one case, 3-1 (12-4) M-F ratio. Two male profs, two female fellows. This is going to be...interesting.

[identity profile] hca.livejournal.com 2009-01-06 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah... I did (sadly) know that they're considered optional by most insurance companies. Optional, my ass. I need them to chew. I have been dealing with this by covering my ears, chanting lalalalala, and planning to be the one person ever who makes it to 100 with all of them still functioning fine and implant-free.

... I perhaps ought to consider a back-up plan. :)

[identity profile] orichalcum.livejournal.com 2009-01-06 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
Well, this has also been my approach until now. Now in cold weather, my jaw hurts...

Maybe Obama will give us all awesome dental insurance?