We had an Empty Bowls event here in September. It really is amazing.

ION, you guys have led me to commit tumblr.

I am hoping it let's me be more active about keeping up with it than LJ and wordpress.

It's owltlet.tumblr.com

If others have tumblrs, please let me know. I alreadly follow the happy things tumblr.

Thanks for the birthday wishes! I'm the product of the first three primes!

And now I'm going to bed.

Man, I'd be all over buying those bowls!

Home from a simply lovely evening out. I like meeting people, or remeeting people I've only barely spoken to before. Who knew? Passed on pt2, cause I'm just tired today.

Funny thing discovered this morning. My friend & neighbor K was talking about the public boarding high school she'd gone to in NC and later taught at. That triggered a memory of my dorm-mate and fellow student, B (fairly uncommon name) who was just a living breathing ray of light and energy and sweetness. I said OH, I know where you are talking about, my blahblahblahold friend B went there, I think. Man, I ought to look her up. K got this funny look on her face and asked me her last name. Took me a moment to come up with, and when I did, K just started laughing. Turns out they co-taught and shared an office for a number of years, and K measures all work collaborations by the standard of theirs. K taught chem, B bio and with a third physics teacher, they were THE science department. Small fucking world.

I'd love to do a fundraiser like it at school. But not necessarily bowls. I just don't know what. It was super cool. I should take a picture of the bowl I got.

Kat, we do Empty Bowls with the sixth graders, and it's awesome.

Goat cheese, yum. Goat cheese burps, YUCK.

Happy Birthday, Hil!

Oops, meant to say Happy Birthday to Hil!

I have had a weird day. I woke up with vertigo and have been off all day. Dizzy and out of it. I had a ton of grading to do, yet every time I tried to focus enough to be able to write comments on papers, my head starts swimming. We slept in late, yet I'm going to bed now. Argh. I really better be better by tomorrow, because I am going to have to pull a marathon grading session to get caught up.

I'm wondering if I might have an ear infection. I don't have any other symptoms really, but vertigo and fatigue seem likely candidates.

Try dumping some alcohol in your ear. It can't make it worse, but if it is partly a blockage, that might help ( I regularly dump an alcohol/vinegar mix in mine, but that's because of the swimming. But I can tell there's water in there by weird balance/jawpain stuff even when it doesn't gurgle.)

Thanks Sara. We are out of alcohol, but I just used hydrogen peroxide on both ears. You're right--can't hurt, and maybe it will help.