It’s time for a catch-up post.
Here is my week, by the numbers:
4: Consecutive hours I graded on Monday night
4: Toilets I cleaned on Tuesday night
3: Nights I’ll be away from home for the Surrey International Writers’ Conference
1*: Red feather boas I packed for writing conference
5: Feather boas Elena Aitken packed for writing conference
5: Friends from my Calgary critique group who will be at conference
6: Hours I’ll spend in the bar this weekend “talking about writing”
5: Weeks I’ve had this sucky sinus virus thingie
23: Number of times I’ve tweeted about said sucky-sinus-virus-thingie
3: Times I’ve complained I sound like Demi Moore
3: Times people have reassured me Demi Moore’s voice is sexy
0: More sleeps until I kiss my family goodbye, grab my sinus meds, and head to the airport with my red feather boa
*Number shown does not include red feather head gear
How’s your week going, by the numbers?
You are lucky, Demi Moore does have a sexy voice. Usually when I am sick I sound more like Marge Simpson!!!!
My normal voice sounds like Marge Simpson.
Leanne, what a fun post!
Here is how my week is going, by the numbers:
18: Hours of sleep so far this week….
1: People I have had to clobber.
2: Flash bang grenades I have been able to use.
4: Friends that I have reconnected with.
0: Writing conferences that I have planned. 🙁
6: Chapters to re-rewrite and tweek.
1: Fist-pump because I haven’t had the sucky sinus virus thingie yet.
😉
Woot! Can’t wait for the conference! See u today!
I’d take 4 hours of toilet cleaning. Throw one back for me in Surrey, eh.
0: Times I have Skyped with you.
1: Blog that I need to post. Now.
Have a great time at your conference. And Demi Moore does sound sexy. 😉
You’ve been sick for 5 weeks? Nooooooo….I’m only at 3, and I want it to be over.
Hope you have an excellent conference! I also hope that we see pictures of said boas in action. Preferably not worn to just clean toilets.
1: Number of emails I got that my son had not turned in math homework.
1: Number of phone calls I received from the Vice Principal about my son’s “poor 8th grade choices)
0: Number of times said 8th grader claimed responsibility for the incident.
12: Number of times I wondered if I could start drinking at 9 AM and just not stop until the day was over.
.5: Number of glasses of wine I ACTUALLY consumed because I was too emotionally exhausted from the day.
Sigh. I’d rather do 4 hours of grading AND clean 4 toilets.
Have fun at the conference!
4: Trips to various stores in search of Halloween stuff
29.7: Meltdowns dealt with
3: Episodes of Drop Dead Diva watched on Netflix
1: Day of forgetting to bring my lunch to work
1: Emergency earthquake drill ignored
38: years of life celebrated
42 participants in the MYP Introduction Workshops hosted at our school
68 cover lessons to organise each day
3 Principals in my school jetting off to Bali for a Leadership Conference (while I’m stuck at school because the dates clash)
1 sucky persistant virus
ummmm…what writer’s conference is this now? the last one I went to didnt have any feather boas
Ha. It’s the 20th anniversary of the Surrey International Writers’ Conference, hence the 1920s theme.
2: Times i woke up in the morning convinced that it was saturday
24: Reports I collated yesterday
4: Times I almost begun to change my summer clothes for the approaching autumn-winter
11: Days that I’ve had this wretched headache
08: Hours spent in the E.R.
02: CAT scans on my brain
01: Case of shingles*
*Who in the flaming cowbell gets shingles at 43?! I’m just sayin…
Sounds like a busy week!