Ramble, Ramble

Wow! It's been awhile again since I've posted.

To be honest, everything is new, yet nothing is new at the same time. I've been going through bouts of sickness, being bed-ridden and then functioning, and heading back to my bed again. Now, H. is lying on the couch with a fever and a cough that makes him sound like a 90-year-old with emphysema. It sucks, really. He can't afford to be sick with all the stuff he has to do at work, and I can't afford to be sick since I'm taking 17 credits per semester plus baby-sitting and Russian classes on the side. (I know, boo-hoo.)

Other than that, school is school. Now that I've hit the mid-term point, it's heavy on the papers. I'm trying to get into good habits of writing in three or four page chunks rather than sitting down and hammering out a fifteen-page paper. Sure, it works now. It definitely won't fly in grad school though. Nobody sits down to write a three-hundred-page paper. Nobody I know, anyway. So, I figure good habits are good to establish now. Or something.

On the plus side, I'M GOING TO CANADA SOON! That's right! I'm psycho and am going in the middle of the winter. Instead of complaining about the cold, though, (which I'm bound to do once I actually get there), I'm looking at the bright side of things. Other than my house shoes, the only pair of shoes I have to take are the winter boots I'm wearing on the plane. I'll tell you, it sure makes packing a lot easier when you don't have to plan your shoes with the clothes you pack.

Another plus side? H. earns USD, which sucks the big one when everything in Germany is in yo-yos. But it definitely makes things fun for shopping in Canada. Even though the US dollar is in the toilet right now, it's still cheap shopping! Woohoo!

And that's it. See? I told you nothing was happening with me! Oh, I could go into the details of the last TT dinner I attended, or the fun it is to baby-sit a teething child. But that would be even more rambling than the interwebs could probably deal with.

So here's to something interesting (yet not catastrophic) happening soon...