Friday, June 25, 2010

Noella's 18 month checkup:
33 1/4 inches (still about 90th percentile)
24 lbs (somewhere between 20 and 50th percentile)
So basketball may remain in her future, although sumo wrestling may be out. 
She still has a nice pudgy belly, and has started to enjoy lifting up her shirt or dress while out in public to show off her "BEHL!" (this is generally said with an emphatic nod of the head) as much as possible.

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

I don't usually blog from work. Something about time managment, training on ethical use of state property (yes, I do still work for the state of Illinois), or similar.
However.... I am actually laughing out loud reading over my class content evaluations for the summer semester.  I often have classes do this to comment specifically on topics, assignments, etc along with the more generic ones that they do through the university.  I read all of them and usually find some positive, some critical, and generally a few helpful comments.  This particlar evaluation strays a bit outside of the standard comments that I tend to get, obviously intended to amuse both the writer and reader, and deserves to be shared.  See below:

Introduction to coursse: YAY! The first day of school!

Chapter 1 and Chapter 2: Ya! Its time for school today!

Chapter 3 and primary documents (App 1-5)/ Collective Action Homework: Awesome! Homework!

Chapter 4/ Civil Rights Homework: Wow! This class is still interesting.

Chapter 5/ Paper Preparation/ Civil Liberties exercise:  Oh my God, I can’t stop taking notes.

Chapter 6/ Congress Homework:  Jesus, why do I care so much?

Chapter 7 and Chapter 8:  I'm still interested!

Chapter 9/ Judicial Decisions Homework:  The level of awesomeness of this class has reached critical levels.

Midterm/ Jeff Smith documentary: I want to be in Congress.

Chapter 11/ Research Paper/ Cong office visit:  Killed that paper.

Chapter 10/ Public Opinion Homework: What? I don’t want it to be over.

Chapter 12 and Chapter 13/ Interest Group Homework:  Dumb summer session. Why’d you have to be over?

Chapter 14 and Chapter 15: Yay, school’s almost over!


One more class, and then I get to be out for almost two months.  I have plenty of work to do, but am looking forward to a break from the day to day legwork of teaching.  So I second the last comment: Yay, school is almost over!

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Happy Fathers' Day, Patrick... and thanks for the new floor!
Only the trim left to go and some details around the stairs... the couch (and the TV!) can go back.

We are all pretty tired at our house!