scrabble game post sara’s wedding. chris and i had to entertain ourselves with our phones b/c carter and kent would take FOREVER wither their moves.

i am currently having a conversation via e-mail a ta of one of my classes about the answer to one of the problems on the problem set. it is a class of 60 people, which i hate, mainly b/c grading and such gets very formulaic and if you don’t put the exact answer they are looking for then they count off. (and some people get the exact answer during office hours.) i am not understanding why what i did was wrong, and the ta cannot tell me why my answer is wrong. and that is annoying. if i got it wrong, fine, but i want to learn from my mistakes and it makes it really hard to learn from them if the ta cannot explain why what i did was wrong. sigh. it also doesn’t help that i could not really understand her when i met with her on tuesday, plus she totally was late b/c she was in the wrong place to meet me. i just want to understand why my way is wrong, not that i didn’t give the exact answer that was on the answer key.

i can tell i’m in my last trimester, mainly b/c my level of irritation with the world and my lack of filter. Usually if i get irritated, i feel too bad to say anything, but when i am preggers i do not feel bad. it is nice, i’ll be honest. i not saying something that needs to be said just b/c i’m afraid. also: my sciatic nerve is being compressed by my pelvis shape changing. It gets better with the elliptical, but every so often, things shift and damn, it hurts. and after a day of picking up aiden a million times it is achey, but that is my only complaint.

aiden is VERY cute with my belly. he says hi baby to it and gives it hugs. very cute.

my first paper in my law and policy class, as i mentioned, was sent via e-mail. the prof (who is a partner is a big law firm here) printed them out, wrote comments on them, and had his secretary scan them in and e-mail them back to us.

i just signed ben up to maybe be a wheel of fortune contestant. he is really good.

before we moved – helping pack by putting all the spoons on that plate.

on my midterm yesterday there was a bonus question (worth 3 pts) asking about an event that happened in lecture – on a slide a week or two ago, the number in a matrix were flipped, and someone pointed it out and the prof changed it there on the spot. the question ask to tell some detail of the event – who pointed it out, what was the slide about, what was the problem. It noted that this was a gift to people who came to class and did not sleep in class. so which i responded on the question, people really sleep in class? though i guess the girl who always sits in front of me spend a lot of time on gmail.

later in the day, in my policy class, the girl who sit at my table in that class spent the entire 3 hours reading an economics paper and doing other things on her computer. she didn’t even pretend to be paying attention. does she think that the prof doesn’t notice? especially since i do participate in class and so he is looking at our table a lot. i understand the occasionally email/text (i do text a bit during that class as usually there is something going on with family/aiden (i.e. yesterday my mom’s surgery)), but i still pay attention and participate. i think the prof should CALL ON these people. he calls on other people. though i’ve decided he only know like 4 people’s day despite us fill out a seating chart every meeting.

i hate that stats program i installed, for all the reasons stated before AND because it has totally jacked with my system b/c it isn’t really written for mac ox (according to the interwebs this is not an uncommon problem). so i’m getting ERRORS ON MY APPLE. very unhappy. though it is nice to be able to use that program on my computer. one more month, and then OFF OFF damn software.

third trimester. and now i’m having to see my OB every two weeks. she is funny. we chat like peers. and she assured me that i am not going to die from the swine flu (though i did know this). and she said as of now she would say it would be fine for me to go to houston, but that we would have to revisit it when the travel date gets closer depending on if the strain going around gets worse. and she said that the dr in the NY times was wrong: preggers can take antivirals..at least i can (probably b/c i am not in the 1st trimester). so now i am really not worried. she said as long as i go to the dr if i even think that i have symptoms and get tested it would be fine. we joked about how it is probably getting so much media attention because people are tired of hearing about the economy. and talked about how people should calm down b/c the people who died in mexico didn’t have any medical care. anyways, she’s funny. she also said that i carry babies very well – i.e. i’m not major huge. i saiid yes, i am lucky. i am lucky.