So…look at me writing again so soon!  I guess I never realized how much fun it is to get comments!   Alan, I’ll try not to get too far ahead of you!

Last night, Eric and I went to the Steven Curtis Chapman concert.  It was good, but I was very tired, and it was VERY long.  Kristie was right, Karen…SCC does talk too much!  But the music was good, and I got cheap cds!

Today I am grading in my office.  I have only FIVE more portfolios to grade…and I save the ones I know will be good until last so they don’t take as long as the others! Yeah!!!  Of course, I still have to grade bonus work, but I don’t spend very much time on that at all!  I figure it isn’t going to do much for most of their grades, but they think it’s cool that I offer it.  And it gets them to go to the Writing Center and the “cultural” activities on campus, so I figure it has to do them some good anyway!

I have a problem with my office.  When I walked in this morning, it was 50 degrees in here!  Two outside walls and a very bad heating system make it impossible to keep my office warm!  And I get so annoyed with those emails trying to guilt us into not using our space heaters…what else am I supposed to do here?  After 30 minutes in my office without a heater, I can’t write or type without gloves (and I can’t really write/type with them either ).  As it is, I never take my coat off…oh well…I guess I’ll just keep running my heater!  Besides, after 4 hours of using my heater, my office is a balmy 60 degrees!

I guess I don’t have much else exciting to tell you.  Mom isn’t at CU today, so I had to eat lunch by myself.  Oh well, I guess that was God’s way of getting me back to grading faster!  So I suppose I should get back to grading…

So…October is the last time I wrote on this thing…I’m really bad at web-journaling!

I’m done with classes, but not grading.  I have two stacks of
portfolios on my floor downstairs that I have to grade before
Wednesday.  But I’m going to try to get them done today…we’ll
see, though!

I also have to drive into downtown to drop off our “Adopt-a-Family”
stuff at the Salvation Army place there.  It’s actually very cool
to walk into this large chapel and see all the pews and the stage just
filled with boxes and bags of Christmas gifts provided by
strangers.  It kind of makes you feel good! 

Anyway, can’t wait to see everyone next weekend!  I have to think of a good idea for a gift card for our exchange!

Hey, Kim Sue!  I met someone you know today…Mike Pistolas from
the Columbus Running Club.  It turns out that he is the same Mike
that Eric lived with when he first moved to Columbus after
college.  They had a third roommate named Brian who lived with
them; all three went to Denison, but Mike graduated a year before the
other two. 

Anyway, today was Denison’s homecoming weekend, so we hung out with a
bunch of Eric’s friends all day, one of whom was Mike.  And then
he mentioned the running club in passing, I mentioned that you were in
the club…and voila!  So he said he’d mention it to you the next
time he saw you.  And I thought I’d mention it first!  Fun,
huh?

So…um…Karen said I was supposed to join the Edlund blogring…here I am…hope you don’t mind! 

I just bought the negatives for my wedding pictures today. 
Yeah!  Now I have the copyright and can do anything I want with
them.  Such fun…anyone want a picture!