This week was one of those weeks!
It was life getting in the way of blogging; events have enforced a mini-blogging break.
To wit:
1) The week before the UNM spring break meant extra busy days at the Writing Center. And for my classes.
2) We had a dog trainer out to help me deal with Shy 
Shayna and Rowdy Lily on Monday.
Shayna and Rowdy Lily on Monday.It also snowed on Monday.
3) Tuesday Shayna had her teeth cleaned.
4)My ancient laptop (5 years old is practically antique in computer years) combined with DSL problems means slow connections and a lot of down time, and I cannot blog much from work. (I will be ordering a new laptop this year--Dell has a Deal. I am anticipating problems when I beg to remain with XP. I am such a Luddite!).
5) I am tutoring a young man at EMHS for Algebra II. I have suddenly gotten very interested in factoring equations and simple radical equations after all these years! I am finding Algebra II a whole lot more interesting now than I did in 1976-77 when I was taking the course.
6) Yesterday I went to a conference to hear Temple Grandin speak. This was an awesome presentation, and worthy of a blog entry unto itself.
7) Yesterday afternoon, the EG and I gathered with 18 like-minded people for the We Surround Them broadcast and the unveiling of the 9/12 Project. This also deserves a blog unto itself.
8) I am sick--again! This winter has been the pits for illness. Between lupus flares, the arthritis being worse than ever, the flu in November, food poisoning in January, and now a chest cold that feels like bronchitis, I am beginning to feel like I am aging rapidly. Spring cannot come soon enough for me.
Fortunately, it snowed again yesterday and last night, and so between that and a cough that sounds extremely contagious, I have found an excuse to STAY HOME today. And the internet connection is cooperating, and the ancient computer is no slower than it's age would predict.
1 comment:
Did Temple Grandin speak on her animals communicating book tour or something else?
Did you see the blog post I did on it in January in which I shared a link to a YouTube lecture online that wound up speaking mostly about Autism (despite the label on the lecture)?
I ordered "Born on a Blue Day" yesterday and also 'Strange Son'. I want to learn more about very visual thinking people with autism who are non-verbal. And of how to teach them to read (a newish book is out with the method that the mother of 'strange son' wrote. Do you know of that?)
Sorry to hear you were sick, we've been sick for a month. If my blog was not pre-written and set to auto-publish I would have missed multiple days of posting in the last week especially.
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