Third Culture Kid(s)

Got a call yesterday asking me to reschedule my ultrasound, since their equipment is down for the count.  So, I’m going in on Monday instead.  Three more days to fret about what they might find.
And work on my dissertation has been indefinitely postponed.  I couldn’t even tell you why; I guess it all comes down […]

Everything - and I mean EVERYTHING - is pissing me off lately.  I can’t read weblogs I like without getting irritated, I can’t watch TV without wanting to hurl something at the screen, and my poor, poor husband.  Right now I Do Not want to be touched - not even a little bit, not even […]

Right now, I’ve got enough energy to get something productive done for about half a day - usually the half that comes before noon (which, strictly speaking, is less than half a day, but I’m ignoring that).  After MM goes down for a nap, I become useless and remain so until I go to bed.
But […]

Just…sigh.

If the neighbor’s family is congregating at night, it must be Ramadan.  I think it’s kind of cool, actually; every year (well, this is year 2 of us being here, so I’m extrapolating a little) at Ramadan, all the kids and grandkids (and, I think, aunts and uncles, etc.) congregate at the house across the […]

The evidence:
1. TV.  As much as I always go on about how I’m letting the TV raise MM, the truth is so much more awful.  Since I have a hard time turning the damned thing off myself, it’s on an awful lot of the time.  Programs that MM watches are (in no particular order, especially […]

M. was in Japan and heard about what was happening in New York while IM’ing with a friend who worked just down the road from the WTC - her building went into lockdown, she didn’t know why and told M. to turn on CNN to find out. He watched the whole thing live.
I was […]

We have a new (or, actually, old-and-unresolved) water pipe problem in the house.  I’ve let our landlord know, but he may not even be in the country right now.  It only worries me because I feel like he’s only going to blame us/me for doing something to the pipes that would cause sewage issues, when […]

M. and I rent our home.  You may have gathered this from my occasional rants about the joys of renting.
It sometimes drives me crazy not to own the house I live in.  My mom and dad are both incurable house renovators; if it’s not their house, it’s someone else’s.  And they do very, very good […]