Well, I wrote every day for a few days and then took 12 days off. Here’s a little of what happened while I wasn’t writing…
Memorial Day Weekend:
The weather was beautiful and Jon and I were around all weekend. We enjoyed a hot dog roast with Jon’s family, a cook-out with our neighbors, and lots and lots of sun. Intense sun. The kind of sun that left me kicking my white self for not wearing any sunscreen. Stupid.
Tuesday:
I decided to look for cooking inspiration in my Simply in Season cookbook. I purchased lots of delicious fresh vegetables at the grocery store that morning and wanted to use them in new and exciting ways. I made Lemon-Asparagus Pasta. I added grilled chicken and blue cheese to make it even more interesting. Jon really liked it and I was reminded again of how much I love that he is an adventurous eater - he’s not just a meat and potatoes man and for that, I am thankful.
Wednesday:
I learned that my final project for my class (which I hate, in case anyone had forgotten), was due a week earlier than I thought. The due date in the syllabus said “week of June 1″, but in another part of the syllabus (which I didn’t read carefully until that morning), it said “Due date May 25-May 29.” I decided to email the professor and ask her when the due date was officially. She responded with this line only: “It is due about now.”
About now? What does that mean? After a brief moment of panic and disbelief, I called her. The conversation went a little like this:
“This is Dr. Smith.”
“Hi, Dr. Smith. This is Kim Leichty - I’m a student in your CLL 951 online course.”
“Mm-hmm”
“I have been working on my final project…”
(okay, not entirely true, but I had been thinking about it…)
“and I am just wanting to clarify the due date. I thought in the syllabus it said the project is due the week of June 1, but your email stated that it’s due ‘about now’. When is the last day it can be turned in?”
“I don’t know. I’m not even sure what the syllabus says.”
Read that again…that’s really what she said.
She then realized that she was thinking about her 952 class instead of the 951 class, which I am in. So the conversation went on for another frustrating two minutes. The final word was that I needed to turn it in as soon as possible, but she’d accept it as late as June 4.
Thursday
Worked on my final project
Friday
Worked on my final project until 3:00 p.m. when I finally put it in the mail. The professor seems far too disorganized for me to trust her word on the June 4 date. Oh, the despair and the agony of student-hood.
Saturday
Jon hung up my porch swing! I am so happy about that. I sit on it very carefully just in case it can’t support all of my weight all at once, but so far I haven’t fallen. We then went out to Jon’s parents’ new house to look at the progress - everything looks great. They are on track to move in some time in July. On our way home, we decided we were hungry for some steak, so we stopped at the grocery store on the way home. We enjoyed a nice steak dinner (I was standing with Conner because he cried whenever we put him down…made the dinner a little less nice…) and then spent the evening with our next door neighbors shooting the breeze and making s’mores.
Sunday
We led music at our church, came home to make ice cream for the church’s ice cream social that evening, took an hour long nap and then headed to the church to churn both chocolate and strawberry ice cream. Yum.
Today
Jon headed back to work with leftover steak in his lunch box. Conner and I spent much of the morning playing and learning to crawl. He is so close to crawling on his own, but every time he moves his knee forward, he ends up doing a belly-flop. Very frustrating for him…and apparently, exhausting. I was washing dishes after lunch and noticed that he had gotten awfully quiet while playing in the living room. I walked in and found him laying on his tummy in the middle of all of his toys, sound asleep. I took him to his crib, then came back downstairs to work on my very last assignment for class (yes, an assignment that is due AFTER my final project. Strange, I know).