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01 February 2010<\/strong>
\nThis morning I woke up feeling kind of sick. My throat was tight, and I had to blow my nose more often than I care to do so. I was tired all day, and this culminated in me emailing my supervisor to tell her I’d be taking a sick day tomorrow. This actually works out quite well, as my wife is going back to college tomorrow, and the baby-sitter we had lined up (her sister Roberta) cancelled on us.
\nI did the taxes tonight. The final piece of paper we needed arrived in the mailbox this afternoon, so there was nothing stopping me. I am pleased with the results. At one point, I closed up the booklets and announced to Jennifer that we’d have to pay to get them done, but after looking on line to see the exorbitant costs places like H&R Block charge, I decided to go back through it more closely. I figured it out. Each year it gets slightly more complicated: one year I had to account for rent, later I had to figure in college tuition, then mortgage, property taxes, 401k donations, and then a child. Basically, I just copy from each year, but add in whatever has changed. Now I just need to rewrite everything in pen.<\/p>\n

02 February 2010<\/strong>
\nJennifer is back in college today. She was gone all day. I woke up pleased to discover that, though I was still weak, I was not as sick as I thought I’d be.
\nI picked Owen up from preschool today. When I got to his classroom, I saw these projects made out of construction paper taped to the door. They kind of looked like rats emerging from eggs. But, on the way home, I asked Owen about them, and he said they were groundhogs, and the black oval shaped on the bottom half were their shadows. Ah yes…Groundhog Day! How could I forget?
\nI bottled my other batch of beer this evening. So things are looking good for my semester (which starts tomorrow): I have about 60 bottles of beer waiting for me. Whatever I don’t finish before the semester’s over, I’ll drink the morning before the final exam.<\/p>\n

03 February 2010<\/strong>
\nMy college semester begins today. I’m only taking one class at a time and, this sememster, that happens to be a class called “Textual Studies and Criticism.” The title of the class is a baffling to me as it is to you. The professor already sent out an email a few days ago with two short stories attached as PDFs. I read them during lunch today…so I guess that takes care of the ‘studies’ portion of the class, now I just have to go and criticize. I’m hoping that comes as easy as it sounds.
\nI’m not too excited about a night class that goes from 6:30-9:30. In a way it’s good, because I can easily get in my 40 hours at work each week. On the other hand, it’s gonna make for some long Wednesdays. I just counted on the calendar, though, and it’s only 15 Wednesdays, so that can’t be too bad.
\nI plan to get there an hour before class starts as I plan to meet with my advisor. I want to ask him about the possibility of getting a minor in history, which was suggested to me by last semester’s professor.
\nSo we’ll see how this all goes…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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