Vacation all I ever wanted

So! I have a bit of time off in-between semesters, how nice is that, right?

It is nice except I've been sick until today. Boo! But. The good news is I'm better and now I can start both relaxing and working on my syllabi and assignments for the next semester. Fun stuff.

I just finished writing the paper sequence for my ENC 1101 classes. We are going to be focusing on the social construction of beauty for this semester. It should be interesting. They are reading four articles, the first on exploring whether collections of objects can be seen as art, the second on regulating aesthetics and design, the third on the media's sensationalistic portrayal of procedures like sex reassignment surgery and plastic surgery , and the last is about the ways in which our brain is changing due to technology (more ADD/ADHD).

Yeah, that last article is going to be the hardest to work in, I think, because the other three all deal with beauty. I'm going to bring the fourth by focusing on our cultural perception of things like beauty. I think it'll work out.

Today I made "rice krispie treats," only not really. I used a vegan recipe that I altered to fit the ingredients I already have here (I hate having to go out to buy some specialty ingredient I'll only use once).

Bobby made a pizza dough this morning with his new KitchenAid (a birthday gift from Patrice). This is exciting. More pizza is always a wonderful thing. We'll be able to make all sorts of things we wouldn't have been able to before. Fun. Come to think of it, Bobby made out pretty well this birthday. A KitchenAid from Patrice, a Nook from me. I bet that makes it a bit sweeter to turn 32.

Now I'm going to start on those syllabi! Is it really syllabi? Or is it syllabuses? Firefox seems to think it's syllabuses. Hm. Have I been lied to all these years??

Oh! Exciting news. We found a house we really love. Put an offer in on it even. The seller, and I know how much this sounds like a joke, is busy though. It might take him awhile to get back to us. Why, you ask? Oh, well because he's on safari in Africa. Mm hm. So. Good luck us, eh?

Eh indeed!