A Crazy Cat's Life

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To once again quote one of my students (spelling mistakes are his, not mine): "In my opinion I don't see any progress on Ancient Civilization. I don't see any progress because the same thing happen over and over. Someone builds an empire then some else build another empire then they are going into battle. The result of this is gaining another empire for a couple of years until someone else comes and take over." Mind you we spoke of everything from ancient Mesopotamia to Hellenic Greece. Nope. No progress. None whatsoever. We'll just ignore the development of the wheel, writing, philosophy, art, religion.... Well, at least I got a good laugh.

I'm entering the last week of Summer Session I at the college I'm teaching at. This means crunch time. I'm staring at a huge stack o' horrible papers, another stack o' notes to be converted into PowerPoint lessons, and the big black and white mush sitting in the middle of all of it. Now how am I supposed to get any work done. That belly is going "pet me mommy pet me." Argh. Anyhoo...this week is going to be insane. While I'm finishing up the work from this summer session, I have to start prepping next session which starts next Monday. No rest for the weary, eh? I just keep reminding myself: I get three weeks off in August. Oh, and I didn't mean to imply that all librarians are those stereotypical mean nasty ones, though one of the colleges I teach at has a whole slew of them. I know there are some really great ones out there. I'm hoping to break that stereotype. One thing my boss did tell me was that the patrons enjoy coming to the l...

... as Ayla put it . I must be doing something wrong too. LOL

June has been an unusually crappy month for me. You would think that with my birthday and anniversary things would be good. Ugh. Just the opposite. As you probably already know from Ayla's blog , she was diagnosed with Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Say that ten times fast. It's a malignant form of skin cancer that's in her oral/sinus cavity. I know she's 16 years old but she's like my kid to me. OK well maybe not kid but more like best friend. This is the only one who has been through almost every single stage of my life: college, grad school, the music industry, depression, to me getting back on my feet. She has been the constant. The vet didn't give me a timetable but from what I've read, when she starts going downhill it will be quick. On top of that, I did not get the Lecturer position I interviewed for. I had gotten my hopes up on that one too since it would be great to have one job to go to instead of three. Plus I would be teaching which is one of my favor...