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Saturday, February 15, 2014
Feb. 15th, 2014 09:31 pmI think this semester there has only been one week so far where I had a full week of work that wasn't disrupted by snow cancellations. Thursday was another snow day. On Tuesday, in anticipation, I gave my writing students homework for it, so they would just have to upload it online. (I put it on the board on Tuesday and I still had a couple of students who emailed me to ask what the homework was because they couldn't remember and apparently did not write it down. They are college students too. Sigh.)
Other than that the week has been a regular week. Bear and I watch a bit of Olympics in the evenings, usually online on replays (I use my parents' cable account for that). I watched moguls, luge, skeleton, cross country, aerials, downhill skiing, figure skating - all kinds of good stuff. Since I was home on Thursday and then my regular Friday, I did catch some events live too. The free program in figure skating for men this year was so weird as everyone kept falling.
Yesterday, Bear and I had a fun Valentine's Day. We usually keep it low key: I get Bear a card and he gets me a card and a rose/flowers and he cooks me dinner. He didn't feel like cooking this year so he got Chinese takeout, which was delicious (Wonton egg drop soup, veggie boiled dumplings and eggplant chicken with garlic sauce) and Bear also picked up Chocolate Brownie Ben and Jerry's frozen yogurt. And he got me a really nice little bouquet of white daisies, red carnations and one rose (and red and white were our wedding colors). We had Chinese food and watched "Elysium" and had a great night. ("Elysium" was ok as a movie - not the most brilliant one, and I predicted the ending pretty soon into the movie, but it was entertaining enough).
We also had a competition for a sappiest/stupidest/most ridiculous Valentine's Card we could find. I got one that went "Our love is a miracle" etc. and the best line in his silly/ridiculous card was "I love you because your smile has touched a place deep inside of me and filled my soul with the hope of a thousand dreams" Hee. Who writes this stuff. But that was definitely very amusing. And because we are on the same wavelength, we also got each other a second, more normal card and we both ended up picking a very similar card of two children with backs to the camera in black and white. (His was 'wife' card and my was to 'husband' but it was pretty similar).
Other than that the week has been a regular week. Bear and I watch a bit of Olympics in the evenings, usually online on replays (I use my parents' cable account for that). I watched moguls, luge, skeleton, cross country, aerials, downhill skiing, figure skating - all kinds of good stuff. Since I was home on Thursday and then my regular Friday, I did catch some events live too. The free program in figure skating for men this year was so weird as everyone kept falling.
Yesterday, Bear and I had a fun Valentine's Day. We usually keep it low key: I get Bear a card and he gets me a card and a rose/flowers and he cooks me dinner. He didn't feel like cooking this year so he got Chinese takeout, which was delicious (Wonton egg drop soup, veggie boiled dumplings and eggplant chicken with garlic sauce) and Bear also picked up Chocolate Brownie Ben and Jerry's frozen yogurt. And he got me a really nice little bouquet of white daisies, red carnations and one rose (and red and white were our wedding colors). We had Chinese food and watched "Elysium" and had a great night. ("Elysium" was ok as a movie - not the most brilliant one, and I predicted the ending pretty soon into the movie, but it was entertaining enough).
We also had a competition for a sappiest/stupidest/most ridiculous Valentine's Card we could find. I got one that went "Our love is a miracle" etc. and the best line in his silly/ridiculous card was "I love you because your smile has touched a place deep inside of me and filled my soul with the hope of a thousand dreams" Hee. Who writes this stuff. But that was definitely very amusing. And because we are on the same wavelength, we also got each other a second, more normal card and we both ended up picking a very similar card of two children with backs to the camera in black and white. (His was 'wife' card and my was to 'husband' but it was pretty similar).