You know..

... you live in the middle east when you pull into the grocery store parking lot and realize that the Porsche Cayenne parked next to you has been left running while its owner went inside. I couldn't believe it! The owner possibly felt comfortable enough with middle east justice or was just so filthy rich that he/she didn't mind the car being stolen.

Welcome to Doha.

Recovery

After two naps yesterday, I was finally rid of the migraine. Or so I thought. Nasty bugger decided to return and attacked me all night. Today is much better.

I'm up at school working on writing my major paper, kind of like a thesis just not as big, for my masters degree. It's a gorgeous day and I'm sitting in the senior commons, a place in school with windows two stories tall. Birds are flying around outside the windows and I'm energized to write. Wahoo!

Okay, break time is over now. See ya!

Migraines are for the birds

When I was a kid, I would get a migraines often and have to go in to my mom's bedroom because it was the darkest and quietest room in the house and I would sleep it off. Now that I'm an adult, the don't come around as often but when they do, they are whoppers. I've been fighting a bad headache off and on for three days and so it was no surprise last night that it turned into a full fledged migraine. Yuck. Queasy, dizzy, hungry but nauseous, pounding, pounding, pounding. Thankfully, these days there are better over-the-counter medicines to help. Thank you, Excedrine Migraine! I took two pills and slept through the night. Now that I'm awake, my head feels about 5 feet big/wide and a little light-headed, but that's pretty normal for the after-effects. There is still some lingering pain so I'll wait to see what it does before I decide to take more meds and go back to sleep or not. Or maybe I'll just go back to sleep.

Thank you, Lord, for sick days. It feels so weird to be home when everyone else is at school. I put more birdseed out on the balcony so I could watch the birds come and listen to them sing. It looks like it's going to be a hot day here!

Seniors

All year long, I've had this one particular Senior boy in my AP computer science class who has tried to get me to slow down, to not give so much homework (or any), and to go off on tangents during class. He has annoyed me to death! There were days I actually did not want to see him or hear his voice. Now they have finished all the course materials and are taking practice exams to prepare them for the big one on May 5th. Now he says to me, "Thank you, Miss T. This practice is really helpful." :-D Aaaaahhhhhh. Finally.

Still...

...dealing with writer's block. Ugh!!!

On a different note, here is what my Robotics students have been doing lately.

Kids...

...Just hang around them long enough and you'll get the laugh you need. Today, I heard a robotics student say, "There should be a robot powered by sheer awesomeness. Then I could power it just by being in the room."

Ah, no self-confidence issues for him! :-P

Need a laugh

I need a laugh today. I'm exhausted, have tons of work to do and I can't concentrate one iota. Hope you enjoy this laugh as much as I do. Laughter is medicine for the soul...

This is complements of www.failblog.org and it was posted by Marie-Josée. Thanks for the laughs! One note on failblog, there is a g-rated version link at the top of their page.