I Truly Loathe "I Love Lucy"

I knew that my wife was a fan when I married her.  We all have to make compromises for the ones that we love.  Now our two children are watching DVD's of "I Love Lucy".  Specifically, my daughter with the broken leg is watching the show now while I do schoolwork.

Why do I loathe the show?  I don't enjoy being around folk who act silly I guess.  I do enjoy to talk silly, and a lot of my entertainment is silly, e.g. Monty Python.  But Python's silliness always was subversive.  The characters in "I Love Lucy" are acting out the stereotypes of the women with their roles and men with their roles.  It is repetitive.  It is boring in a loud way.

Another Easter

Well, I've sung in five masses in the past four days, including a three-hour vigil mass last night.  I am tired mentally but my body seems willing to keep going.

My mind feels so revved up from caffeine and too much work that I get too frustrated with our choir director's lack of organization.  I spend a lot of my time in choir waiting to get a chance to sing.

I think that I want to look into taking voice lessons.  I've been losing my skills as a singer since I stopped singing with my university's student group.  I'd like to be better.

Hairline Fracture on Tibia

Well, our daughter has broken her leg.  Is that the correct way to describe it?  She has a hairline fracture on her tibia, apparently near a "growth plate" whatever that means.  She has a cast and must let it heal without putting weight on it, and our lives are turned upside down (again).

We've lost sleep, particularly the first couple of nights as she screamed in pain.  We've taken turns with helping her to the bathroom, etc.  We've taken time off from work.  While she's home she's got the sofa bed open and the TV on loud, so it's been hard to work.  She wakes pretty easily so working late or early is out while she's in the living room.

This is my busiest month of the year, so I'm pretty frazzled.  She broke her leg the afternoon of a date night for my wife and I;  it will be months before I can get my wife's attention again.

I'm pretty self-centered.  I hope that she feels better soon but a lot of that is to make our lives easier.

Another Peaceful Sunday

I've been working on my laptop all day when I've not been cooking.  I can't remember when it wasn't thus, although I imagine it wasn't thus last summer.  The worst part of feeling as tired and overworked as I do is feeling that it has always been this way and that it will always be this way.  This is blatantly untrue, and yet the low-level certainty that I feel is hard to shake.  Maybe this is part of how fatigue distances you from reality.  I know that it has kept me depressed in a way that is very hard to shake.

Back Again

Well, I'm back from a quick conference in Alabama.  Definitely weary.  Lots of stuff waiting for me here at work.

We're on the downhill stretch, 5 1/2 weeks left in the academic year.  Lots to do in a short amount of time.

Good to be with the wife and kids again.  Just wish there wasn't so much to do.