Vacation, Day Two

[etumukutenyak]

I'd taken this week off when we thought that Son had no camp this week (silly Honey miscalculated and he's still in camp). Day One was lost to a migraine that wasn't the most painful (and grateful I am for that) but still caused enough mental fog that I spent the day mainly sleeping. It left during the night, so when I woke this morning, I was back to my chipper self.

So, this AM, Son walked the dogs and then requested that he be allowed to walk to camp from home. Bye, dear! I perused emails, worked out on the Wii Fit, shopped a bit, and went over to the Red Cross to donate blood. For that effort, I got a bottle of juice and a t-shirt -- and an excuse not to work too hard for the rest of the day. Oh, I plan to clear out the closet so I can get started on the new shelving unit..but I'm just out of energy right now. I should be better later.

Soon, I have to pick up the Son from camp and the sandwiches from the deli. Son has a Scout meeting and Honey has another one of her all-important church meetings at the same time (luckily, in the same location), so after dinner I'll watch them leave the house again.

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[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Enjoying your vacation so far? :)

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

Ha..yes. No major jobs around the house to do, and a consult surgery to teach tomorrow AM (vasectomy in male monkey). I suppose I could do some laundry once I get home..and those shelves won't put themselves together, eh? Then I can get back to the latest Temeraire book and find out how they chase old Bony out of England.

You've been busy though! Learning Latin and Greek -- I never could get the hang of Greek, although I loved Latin.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Consult surgery? Are you sure you're really on vacation? :)

The new Temeraire is out? I'll have to wait for paperback, I think: I didn't love the last one enough to keep shelling out HC prices.

Greek is for college. Latin is for fun. They're very similar languages, suprisingly enough, except koine uses the dative for the same things Latin uses either dative or ablative. Both good fun. :)

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

Ah, but vasectomies are fun. They're dead easy to do (channeling Eddie Izzard: "easy-peasy!"). Now I've taught two more veterinarians how to do this lovely little surgery, and more male monkeys can be housed safely with female monkeys without the unwanted sounds of little feet pitter-pattering throughout.

Then we walked down into Georgetown and had a lovely lunch, after which I had a leisurely drive home (although the leisureliness was unintended).

This Temeraire is better again -- more action (!), more intrigue (!!), and I haven't got past the invasion of London yet. Dinner intruded.

I do know quite a bit of Greek roots in English (thanks to a college professor of English), so I am not a total heathen.. ;-)Someday I'll have the time to devote to those languages again.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

:)

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

I'd like to have the time to learn both.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

I think Spanish and Mandarin might be more useful.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

I speak one, though not the other.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

I have very minimal Spanish (I read it pretty well) and no Mandarin. I don't really remember any of the Japanese or Chamorran that I learned when we were station on Japan and Guam. I have a small bit of French, which again, I read pretty well, and when I'm trying to speak Spanish and my brain doesn't know the word, it sticks the French word in without asking.

My cleaning lady is going to take English classes (free, from the elementary school) two days a week this year. I think we should have free Spanish classes, too!

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

I do want to learn Latin and Greek, though, and have professional reasons for doing so. Certainly, I'd like to do some work on classical European thought in my old age. (Curiously, I just learned that a headmaster of a school to which I went -- long before I went there, I should add* -- was an authority on Cicero. He (the headmaster, that is, not Marcus Tullius) had as one of his perquisites the right to pasture his cattle on school land.

* His editions of Cicero were published in the 1880s.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

Migraines are plain evil. You have my sympathies, for what they're worth.

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

Thanks. They change as the years go by, and lately have been more fog with less pain (comparatively speaking). I take antihistamines and iboprofen, and try to get lots of rest -- that usually works.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

I'm glad something does. Migraines were a problem I had with puberty, and, fortunately, they went away. Dealing with them on a continuing basis is no fun. All I can recommend is tea, darkness, and human sacrifice.

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

I'm hopeful they'll eventually leave, as my maternal grandmother had migraines until menopause. I think my mother has been the same -- I haven't asked her. Estrogen is a known trigger for some migraines, so removing that factor should be of help.

Yes, tea and darkness work wonders. Human sacrifice will happen if people bother me when I require darkness and silence. ;-)

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

Inherited and sex-linked. Eek. Not at all fun.

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

Heh..I never thought of it that way.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

That's what it sounded like, alas.

[i-calql8.livejournal.com]

I miss vacation. I've been teaching seven days now. Make it stop. Please?

I'm sorry about your banger, but better a migraine on vacation than at work. Migraines suck in general, so I hear, so better you get them in a comfortable setting, where you can just crash until it blows over. *hug*

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

Ah, but if you didn't have the joy that is your job, you wouldn't appreciate your vacations as much. As in, "it feels so good when I stop hitting it". ;-)

Aren't you teaching some motivated kids this year?

Thanks -- migraines are indeed more tolerable at home, but sometimes no matter how much it hurts, I go to work anyway.

[i-calql8.livejournal.com]

Or 'the beatings will continue until morale improves'.

Higher-level? Mostly, yes. Motivated? It's a crap shoot.

Of course, you could say the same about me--higher level? Definitely. Motivated? Um, just enough that I don't get fired.

Is Frydy nao?

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

Yes, that too.

It's a shame the kids aren't motivated or working hard to learn math. I wish there was some way to wave our magic wands and poof! they'd be motivated to try harder, at least. Believe me, we motivated our son to do his math homework all summer, and it's done. We've got to check it for errors, and finish his three book reports, and then it's back to school for him next Tuesday.

Ah, September. I used to look forward to it. New pencils! New notebooks! New clothes! Old friends!

U can haz Fryday nao.

[i-calql8.livejournal.com]

Why does "I Wish I Could Go Back to College" from Avenue Q run through my head almost constantly?

#2 son has had two migraines this week. You have some catching up to do. ;-)

Is Fryday nao!!!1 Is Frdiay nao!11!!1 I haz happeee!!

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

(1) Because you are having a rare "musical migraine"?
(2) Bummer, dude. ::passes around the ibuprofen bottle::
(3) I haz a happee too. New shelving in our re-purposed closet, now for linens! (Old coats banished to the upstairs bedroom.)

[i-calql8.livejournal.com]

He takes Tylenol...the PM version if he wants to sleep/knock himself on his @$$ until his headache leaves. I'm the ibuprofen guy in the family, but only when I get a fever (no cowbell jokes kplzthx).

'Re-purposed'?

Wi haz happeez toogeddr! Yayyy!1!!11

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

It used to be a coat closet, but this week I removed all the hanging items, sawed off the pole (old wooden one, nailed in place), and put in an InterMetro 25"x64" metal shelf unit. Now we haz a linen closet. Honey haz a happee, too.

I used to take Tylenol and aspirin (together -- they synergize each other's effect) and later switched to ibuprofen.

What is this cowbell of which you speak? And why would I want any musical cows when I have a fever or migraine?

;-)

[i-calql8.livejournal.com]

'Coat'? What is this 'coat' of which you speak? ;-)

From an SNL sketch..."I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell." But I think you already knew that. Tease.

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

It's what your wife wears after the sun goes down, because she's chilly. You, of course, being a manly man, scoff at such unmanly things.

I can neither confirm nor deny that I have any knowledge of this "SNL" person to which you refer. :-P