sarahmichelef

... and I even compose posts in my head; they just never manage to make it out of my fingers and onto the keyboard.

I have discovered a reasonable suit-substitute. See, last year when I felt like it was likely that I would get an interview for the DYC job (I did), I realized I needed a suit. For the winter holidays, I asked my parents for a jacket and skirt that I loved at Land's End. Except... the grey's did not match. After exchanging to correct for size & what seemed to be a better match in color, it was still full of fail. I still have the separates, of course, and wear them as such - never underestimate the utility of a single-button charcoal grey blazer, people.
So today I threw together that blazer, a blue shirt, and a blue diagonal-plaid skirt, with my tall boots. It's not a SUIT SUIT but it's definitely a second-day-of-academic-interview suit, which is awesome.
I am also currently trying to survive without khaki-colored pants and it's proving difficult. See, I have a pair that fit but that got ruined in a dye-transfer situation (cursed disney princess pajamas!). Nothing I have done can get this stuff out of them. So I bought another pair, but I am currently just a bit too portly to wear them. You'd think that would motivate me, but no.
Now that winter is approaching my footwear is going to get more fun again. Why, Sarah, does WINTER mean fun footwear? Well, because if I HAVE to wear boots to negotiate my travel to and from work, I'm going to toss a pair of shoes in my bag to put on when I get to work.

This is week 6 of my physical therapy. After tomorrow, I will be released into the wilds of "do it yourself at home" with instructions not to try running for at LEAST another six weeks. And that, my friends, is MAKING ME CRAZY! But the knee is CLEARLY not strong enough to run yet, so I will listen to ~~Sadist~~ Doctor Dan.
My astma is also proving to be not-well-controlled right now. It's not lungs, it's upper airway. I got like this last fall, too, and all I got from the MDs was "your inhaler won't help if your peak flow is fine." Well, now I've been talking to

baronessmartha and there is some questioning of whether they were insane when they told me what level I should be aiming for with my peak flow and I'm feeling the same tightness in my upper airway AND I'm feeling like my cardio performance is hosed (feeling my heart rate going way higher than I think it should when I dash up a flight of stairs or two) so I need to drag my rear into the office and make them figure out what's going on there.
Thank goodness the election-related anxiety attacks are gone, though.

There has been a BABY EXPLOSION in my world. There are oodles of people who are due at the beginning of the year (several of whom are probably reading this) but in the past 10 days THREE friends have spawned. In one case, I knew the person was pregnant; in one, I did not (probably due to the facebook/college friend being male); in the third, I found a HS friend on facebook two days after his wife had a baby.

I think that hits the high points of what's running around in my head these days...