You know those times when you feel completely and totally overwhelmed, as if you had to put one more iron in the fire you would burst into flames?? All that would be left would be a huge pile of smoldering ash...someone would walk by and say, "I think that used to be Mary. It smells a bit like burnt hair." Well, that was my life as of late...until today. One by one, my irons in the fire turned into marshmallow roasting sticks and I realized that I can take some time to make smores. What I mean is this: my to-do list for today through friday was growing longer by the minute. Today was class and TA duties ALL DAY...followed by running a few errands tonight (or rather making my husband run them because I had too much to do) then, doing my grad stats homework, meeting with a professor about my previously mentioned mammoth paper...that was just today. Tomorrow was lesson planning, reading a 90 page article and most of a book, cleaning, grading homework, taking Moses to the vet, etc. Friday was 4 hours of teaching and odds and ends. Well, first of all, my grad stats lab this morning was over in 10 minutes, which allowed me to use that time to do my stats homework...then my meeting with the professor was changed until tomorrow, which would have sucked, except that the next thing was my instructor decided to cancel labs on Friday which mean I no longer have to prepare a lesson tomorrow OR spend 4 hours teaching on Friday! Ah the joys of cancelled or postponed responsibility. Suddenly, the next few days aren't so bad.

Now for something more humorous. Today, Josh and I were sitting in the hallway of a classroom building (at the end of our lunch hour). We overhead a female student talking to a guy. Here's how it went:
girl: "I don't know...maybe I have thyroid."
guy: "What's thyroid?"
girl: "It's like this genetic problem that makes you get fat."
guy: "Oh."

So, news flash to all you genetic mutants out there with "thyroid" - that bow-tie shaped organ in your neck - it's a problem! Get it removed now, or you will get fat!!!!!!! I was then extremely jealous when a colleague told me he heard some undergrads in the hallway talking about Goffman and he felt like a nerd because he immediately wanted to stop and join the conversation. Why do I find the girl who thinks "thyroid" is always a bad thing and not the budding social theorists in the halls???

In other news...my parents are making their debut appearance in C-ville this weekend and the city and I much anticipate their arrival! With that said, I must move on to my (now shortened, but still substantial) to do list.