sarahmichelef

I'm not sure what it's a sign OF, but my UMass mailbox blew quota this morning. I'm notoriously bad about deleting things and I only get 30 mb and my students this semester are e-mailing me a lot of stuff... It's not as bad as when I was getting 500-page book manuscripts as attachments, but there were a lot of powerpoint files sitting in my inbox.

It's better now, though. Offloaded all course-related e-mails to my hard drive, deleted a TON of stuff, downloaded pictures of peregrinning and a_c_fiorucci's kid and the ones that sprirtwolf sent me after passover and the ones of my friend Kara's wedding and the ones of my friends V&B's kids... You get the idea. The stuff, it adds up.

(Which reminds me that one of my projects for tomorrow needs to be backing up the new computer.)

Went to the gym for the first time in nearly a month today. That was lovely. Came home, found that the copy of Happiest Toddler on the Block we ordered had arrived. Soon I will speak neanderthal.

And so on... Our potential playdate for Saturday fell through, but we have the MoD walk on Sunday to look forward to, and the weather's supposed to not suck (60 and partly cloudy is the latest I've heard).

Thank goodness tomorrow's Friday.

Has 'blogging completely taken over my brain? I'm realizing that I don't write in plain text anymore... I write in hypertext. I know that David is going to do the html markup of my review for publication at RCCS, but I can't keep myself from inserting some of my own links, just because that's how I think now.

It's like back in the day (oh, how I hate it when students use that phrase), when Trevor was reading the New Hacker's Dictionary and tried to "click" on some text that he wanted to follow up on. We pointed out to him that it was a book and that books weren't hypertextual.

This needs to be explored further, probably on How Very Meta once my brain is able to think about anything but this book review.

*back under the pile*