Sadly, the cookies were so good that, um, I kind of ate them. As in, all of them. Shamelessly. I don't think chocolate chip cookies are on the Budwig diet, either...but dark chocolate is anticarcinogenic, right? It's one of those things they once told us not to eat, but that is now okay to eat.
Anyway, I'll make more stuff Tuesday. Like I said, I love to bake.
In the meantime, here's me today. At this point I'm two weeks into the chemo and radiation; I still have my hair, and much of the swelling from the surgery and the medications has disappeared. My hair may start coming out this week, which grieves me--there's a saturation point with the radiation that you have to reach before you lose it--but then again it might not. Both the radiation and the chemo these days are very gentle, and everyone responds differently. My mom and I went shopping and bought lots of cute hats, of which I am already availing myself in this nice, almost-cold autumnal weather. I guess this is just going to be a new look for me.
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I love the look! I am a hat fiend, but have not yet figured out how to wear scarves without looking like a painfully white Aunt Jamima. I think that this has more to do with me than the scarves. :)
Lookin' good, Laurel. Lookin' good :)
HI, I love cookies too, too many sadly said, and I am not a big fan of toiling in the gym afterward, so my middle is sort of a cookie shape by now. You're looking cute with the green scarf, so pretty. I just recently talked to Stephen who lives in LA by now and he says "Hi" and "lots of good wishes and thoughts to you". I was personally to message them to you.
Good night, it's sooo cold here in the Midwest, we have rain, snow-rain, and soon snow I wonder. Hats are a common thing already :).
Hey Carola! How are you doing?!! Give my best to Jaeger too, if you see him again. I'm afraid I'm not quite on a first-name basis--he's up in the stratosphere as far as I'm concerned! So he'll always be Jaeger to me. What's he doing in LA? Teaching there now?
Hello Laurel, Stephen is in LA with his family, his wife is a minister and they moved there last year after his retirement. He's still affiliated with the U of IL but doesn't teach any more (but publishes I guess and does his other research)...I understand the stratosphere :). He introduced himself as Stephen to me and he has been like that ever since I met him. He is greatly missed here at our department. I am doing so and so, struggling to finish because I work too many jobs, but I am shooting for my defense in May or July....it's been an uphill battle all along as I never felt quite at home here in the Midwest as I did in San Diego...but hopefully I will come back there, or somewhere to CA soon.
It's so great to read your blog, it reads like a novel to me.
I am not sure if you saw it earlier but it was me who wanted to audit your Chaucer class from the outside since I am so interested in expanding my horizon in classes that are more technology based. I recently helped with some entrepreneurship seminar on how to make classes in foreign languages more appealing etc (I mostly teach German now) and it would be so awesome to be able to see how you're teaching a class like the Chaucer class.
Hope you're having a nice day, Laurel. I keep in touch.
too bad you weren't here for our presentation on the last story for class. you might have enjoyed it more than your normal day. We did mad libs to start off the presentation. I could always send you our presentation for fun :D send me an e-mail if you want it.
EJ
ernestjpennine@aol.com
Hey Ernest--I'd absolutely love to see your presentation! Please do send it to me. I've been able to watch a few others that way, too--it's been a real pleasure for me to see what people have done with their experiences in the class.
Hey Carola! It would be wonderful if you were to take/audit the on-line class. We'll see what we can figure out--you may even still be in the system.
Huzzah!
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