Some good news

[cornerofmadness]

Since we could use it after yesterday.

1. My promotion committee approved me for promotion. Now it goes up the chain, just like my tenure did. It could get denied of course since it would be a big pay hike so think good thoughts.

2. I wrote nearly 4K while my students were taking exams. Their suffering is my muse.

3. I woke up with a plot point at 4 AM and I still remember it!!

4. Holy Clothing offered to replace the dress. i turned it down, deciding to keep this one.

5. Here is the flyer for my presentation on Friday.
2013 Madog Faculty Fellow
Dr. Dana Evans
Presents “Neolithic Wales: Passage Graves, Dolmens and Standing Stones”
JOIN US THIS Friday, April 19, 2013 @ 3:30 PM
Bob Evans Farm Hall, Room 111



The quest to learn more about the standing stones and Neolithic burial sites that dot the Welsh countryside became quite the odyssey. The research trip started in the south of Wales and ended at the island of Anglesey in the north. Along the way, Dr. Dana Evans, under the guidance of Ms. Mary Baker, Head of Archaeotours, visited dolmens and passage graves spanning from 4, 000 to 3,000 B.C.. Key to the investigation was to uncover why these sites were built and what they meant to their builders. Piecing the picture of these early people together from what little they left behind remains difficult, but it is also an enduring mystery that makes these sites relevant to modern man.
Sponsored by the Madog Center for Welsh Studies


Yesterday was strange even for me (even before the tragedy)

I was in a self mutilation mood apparently. My ankle sprained 4 times while I was standing still. It just gave up! Then I fell into a wall and dislocated my left index finger at the knuckle which is now swollen and black. And I fell at the library, didn't hit ground but wrenched my back in avoiding it.


And it could have been entitled "Weird Shit in the Back of Pickup Trucks."
1. At work I had to park beside someone with those tear-down dining tents stuffed in with the support bars sticking out all over.
2. On the way home, I saw a man with a bass boat, not hauling it, oh no, Not in Ohio. That's too normal. He had this little bass boat IN the bed of his truck, tailgate down and only one strap (side to side, NOT front to back where it could slide out) holding it down. I passed him doing 75 just to get around him before that flew out.
3. On the way back from the library I passed a truck trailing a white pony and in the bed of that truck he had attached a metal pen to the sides and had two more brown ponies in it and it wasn't a dually. No it was a rusty old pickup.
4. Right in front of horse man was pig man (probably related) who had pigs in dog crates in his truck. No tail gate. No noticeable tie-downs. Also the pigs were doing it.

God I love it here. Whimpers.

The bad news? I gave a test and I'm betting the failure rate is off the charts.

ETA - I think I might have to up that word count again

24852 / 25000
(99.41%)

Declutter Day 62 Item tossed -Nearly a dozen Styrofoam packaging inserts why kept- Who the hell knows why tossed -Because it was pure crap

Comments

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! Also sympathy! Also, WTF pickups?

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thank you.

I don't know what's up with the klutz mode.

seriously. I'm like wow, what to go Appalachia, you are what people think you are, dumb rednecks.

[sp23.livejournal.com]

Wishing good thoughts for the promotion, and healing vibes for the boo boos.

The pig story surprised me into LOLing. :-D

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks.

surprise pig sex will get you every time

[bay115.livejournal.com]

Yay for promotion and getting a lot of writing done!

Oh, want to let you know I finished Sorrow's Dark Array last week and I enjoyed it very much. The ending is awesome! XD

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks all around.

glad you like it. I was very proud of that story

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

You still owe me a sequel for it. :D

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I think I did do a sequel to this. I think I owe a sequel to the sequel

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

That's it. :D

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Yaaaaaaay for your promotion getting partially approved. Yaaaay.

Stuff in Trucks scares me. Despite the fact we hauled my pony in the open bed of a truck before. It was rather harrowing for all of us. She did better the second time, though. For a Shetland pony, she was, I've heard, remarkably well-behaved (at least as long as she was with me; I heard she turned nasty after Dad sold her).

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks

these were more like Welsh ponies than shetlands (or little horses, what do I know) yes you've mentioned that about her.

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

You're welcome.

Welsh ponies are so nice.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

my neighbor's was a bad jumper

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Sad. They're bred to hunt, after all.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

that might explain the jumping

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Oh, you meant bad jumper as in escape; I was thinking of bad jumper as in, hurt self going over stuff.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yes Penny was an escape artist

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Bad Penny. :D

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Bad Penny turned up on some other farm...

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

She might've wanted a boyfriend. :D

[flybynight00.livejournal.com]

That picture is GORGEOUS. I'm so jealous of your trip. I'm part Welsh and still have family over there, and I haven't made it over to visit them for two years now. Also I'm a complete Celtic mythology/art lover, and touring around Wales to look at standing stones sounds like a dream come true.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I'm heavily into Celtic myth as well and it was a dream come thru. that's Pentre Ifan (in case you didn't know). It was a great place. That was my first trip there, hoping it won't be my last (and I'd like to go see my relatives in Italy some day since in spite of the last name you see attached to my lecture I am NOT Welsh)

[0-mother-0.livejournal.com]

holy moly that's a lot of schtuff!

first, best of luck with the promotion - I'll be rootin for ya!

and is Evans Hall named after a family member? any relation?

and trucks are like that here too... It's like a redneck version of India. I weep for all animals, everywhere.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

it is

thanks.

Ha, don't I wish. Bob Evans is a HUGE restaurant chain and our campus abuts the original farm.

[priarani560.livejournal.com]

Lots of luck and lots of hugs

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks

[rain-oubliette.livejournal.com]

Oh no. I got you beat. When I was living down there, I went to a flea market... And saw two guys stuffing a pony into the back seat of a little, late model Subaru. A f'ing TWO door coupe! Omg.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

that does NOT surprise me of here. It should but it doesn't.

[dragonydreams.livejournal.com]

Good luck on the next stage of your promotion.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thank you. I got notice it went to the Provost so I passed the dean.

[sillymagpie.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the promotion and writing!

You should title your list: Great Moments in Defensive Driving. Ah, the rural Midwest.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks so much


Snort. it's just so fun here