Happy Halloween

Um...I personally think this is the cutest trick or treater ever....but I am biased towards little Joss

Sleep is not my friend

Apparently sleep has friends broken up with me. I have been getting up at the crack of the middle of the night lately and not falling back to sleep. On Monday i was at 4, today it was 2:30ish. Yeah...not my best moments. My guess is that it is probably stress. The job market sucks....this is the most stressful experience I have had in a while. All I can do is wait. In the mean time:

• I am just writing a job talk for a non-existent talk
• Teaching two courses
• Co-authoring several papers
• Crafting...crafting...crafting (check out my craft blog for more details)
• Contemplating putting Tiger in a halloween costume (note this is not Tiger in a costume, just looks like her)
• Realizing that I will have to actually finish my dissertation at some point
• Just really wanting to be on vacation
  

Happy Birthday

So there are two birthdays that I know of today! My mom and my friend Lisa. So if you see either one wish them a happy birthday, or at least a little happy birthday critter....yeah he is sweet!

Haere rā Tahu

so my buddy tahu successfully defended her proposal on monday and tomorrow she is headed back to NZ until March. Sure, she'll be happy with Tez, but she will be missed dearly in Palo Alto.

Now the department only has my symbolic maori-ness to keep it under control....hmmm....we are in for some trouble....i can see it....but I'll wear my maoriland t-shirt...just so people aren't confused :)

We'll miss you T!

The Joss has spoken....

And she said "Hi", I got a phone call today, and who was talking to me, Joss...yup she said her first word and it was Hi....good she is a friendly one, not like her aunty alex, who first said me.

Congrats Joss, soon there will be many more words, but i'll try not to teach you any bad ones....but you know it might happen....

It must be fall

How do I know.....it has started to rain in northern california...which means fall, it becomes winter when it is under 50 degrees during the day......

But they are good days, b/c here is no desire to go outside, so we get a lot done....but the infamous Tiger is outside....so she'll be nasty when she comes home...