Tiffany PinkDog’s Blog

Ray Nagin, mayor of NO, keeps saying things about rescuers pushing the floating bodies to the sides, because there’s no resources to deal with them. Efforts are concentrated on saving the living.
And I am of two minds about the looting: 1) of COURSE they’re looting! It’s New Orleans, for crying out loud. 2) If I [...]

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Before I got pregnant, my weight was around 130 and I was a size 10. I’m 5′7 and get a big midsection when I gain weight. That’s okay with me now, because my boobs help balance me out, and my arms and legs stay pretty thin. So if I dress right, people still say “You’re [...]

Usually, even though I don’t want to, I see the semester as that: a semester. A 16 week project that I get breaks from on the weekends, sometimes. You know what? I hate that. This semester, esp with my greatly reduced workload, I’ve got to try to learn to see the semester as [...]

Well, today happened and it’s over. I don’t remember if I talked about all this last time. Last time was an earlier miscarriage than this one. But I’ll talk about this one.
When I went for my appt on Wednesday and found out Baby had died, the ultrasound tech told me that the ultrasound–which is still [...]

I had the most pleasant quarter-cup of blood drawn today. Seriously! Well, as pleasant as bloodwork can be. The Atlanta area is full of med-tech schools, and I’m glad I got a well-trained phlebotimist rather than a stab-happy old hag. Anyway, 6 tubes of blood. The girl said it would probably be about a quarter-cup, [...]

Wiggly Baby died. They say s/he died about a week ago, and was about 12 1/2 weeks old at that time. Which would make me about 13 1/2 weeks right now! Not what that ticker up there says. I knew they were wrong about that.
I go on Friday to get baby out, and this time [...]

I don’t want to go. At all. I have 3 TR classes in a row! And a night class on W. So, basically, today will be hell.
I’m trying something with my freshmen this semester. I’ve set up a message board, and they have to do their in-class writing in it, for all the other [...]

…today. I guess I’m ready. I’m not looking forward to this semester; my courseload has changed. At my rank, we’re supposed to teach 4 classes and work 3 hours in the writing center. I’ve been a special hire teaching 3 classes with no writing center. But we have a new Dean and my Chair had [...]

Thursday and Friday were fine. I went to a thousand meetings and discovered that I look preggers enough so that my friend Paula felt comfortable enough to ask me if I am knocked up without fear of me saying “NO! I just got FAT!” Another friend, Gwen, who’s been gone all summer, said “I barely [...]