Happy Monday

What a weekend.  Lots of rain.  I started out with high hopes but immediately realized they were going to have to be put on hold when I started having blacked out vision:  my sure sign of a looming migraine.  Sure enough, I spent the next 7 hours in a dark room with my head between pillows but amazingly it resolved pretty quickly and by early evening I was back in family life again.  Thanks to G, who was so solicitous and tender and took over everything that day instead of our usual divide and conquer weekend technique. 

We ended the weekend with a family viewing of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.  We were checking to see if the kids knew what the Holy Grail was and when we reminded them, they said eagerly "See! It IS a Sunday movie!"    Good old Roger the Shrubber and Brave Sir Robin and your-father-smelt-of-elderberries.  And so another generation enters the Monty Python hilarity club.

I usually dread Mondays a bit but today I'm feeling recharged and ready for a new week: two days of classes, the kids home tomorrow for Rosh Hashanah, an interview at a big university here to teach a human development graduate course next semester (panic. breathe. panic. play big. just try. what am I doing? just push past your comfort zone), Young Women activities on Wednesday and Saturday, more stripping of wallpaper (I say the word wallpaper like Seinfeld said Newman. It's my nemesis),  and just good old life.  

For a little fun sprinkled in the week, I've decided to take Ali's challenge of photo-documenting it with shots of real life.  There's a week in the life flickr group here.  You can join in {do!} or just take a peek. {These photos above were taken this morning in the parking lot at Tufts before class.  Oh, my poor bitten fingernails.  They're the first thing I see when I look at these photos.}  

Comments

[cbentley]

Annie and camera in rear view mirror. It IS difficult to take a photo of oneself in the car, isn't it. Sorry about the migraine. (Why do we inherit so much of the less charming biological and even emotional features of our parents?) It isn't really true, if you sit down and make a list of positive and negative attributes. I think it would come out, on balance, in the plus side. (I HOPE!)I must say, I inherited some very nice qualities from my children, or at least they helped me discover some hidden strengths and my better self.

[andrea]

LOVE monty python. i can't wait til my kids are old enough for me to pass the torch.

TOTALLY a sunday movie, by the way.

good luck with the interview. you will rock it. sorry about the migraine. glad it was shortlived.

i'm going to check out your recommended site. sounds fun!
adios chica

[calibosmom]

That is a Sunday movie...perfect. My 12 year old just saw it for the first time...he loved it and of course is quoting it often. Way to go with the class...let us know how it goes.

[Anna]

Good luck at your interview. I would definitly take one of your classes. Nice camera, I'm getting the itch to get one that's bigger than a credit card. My small camera is perfect to slip in my pocket or purse but doesn't give me the quality of pics I'd like.

[Bridget]

You will rock the interview. I personally would love to have the likes of you as a professor. Great rear view mirror pics.

[Christie]

The first thing I noticed was your cute hair and your ring that I have coveted these many years.

ROCK that interview. You will, I know it. Sorry about the migraine. I hate those.

[dayna]

love the photodocumenting idea. i will give it a shot. :)

[gab]

Coveting the hair and camera! Good luck with the interview...who wouldn't love you?!