April Showers – Sure are cold….So today is April 15th, most people I talk to think April, oh tax season and rain. Well not in Utah, today it is snowing! Yes, I did say snowing – as in the white fluffy junk that falls from the sky (you can tell I love winter). It started snowing here in mid-October, it fell, it melted, and it didn’t come back until November. Now the weather is taunting us, it will get nice (low 50s) then snow. To be honest I am really sick of snow. Some of the snow has started to melt because of all the rain we have been getting (all day and all night) but it is supposed to snow and rain tonight and tomorrow (oh joy) and maybe on Friday. For those of you basking in the warm weather outside of Utah – enjoy what you have, feel lucky to be “hot”. Also, here’s a little gem for those of you who grew up without seasons “April showers bring May flowers” – for some reason that makes showers in April sound warm…why doesn’t Mother Nature get this?
I aspire to be a pirate….
Okay so I am sure if you watch the news or have an email account that has a news feed on it that you have been hearing about the awful acts of piracy around Africa. Okay, so Johnny Depp made being a pirate look super fun, why are these guys trashing up the image? Don’t they know that Disney has already gotten a lock on the “pirate” life? I mean if they keep trashing up the image who will want to go on the pirate ride at Disney or watch the pirate shows? Clinton says that governments and shippers need to work together to stop pirates, I say let Disney set up a “Cragen” (the sea monster from one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies) and unleash it on their butts. Yes, I do know this is a goofy thought and that it is totally and utterly impractical, but come on, admit that it is a funny idea – even if it is completely unrealistic.
What in the world were you thinking…
As you may have noticed I like to share stories from teaching every once and a while…because let’s face it if I get a really good laugh I should be kind and share the cause of my laughter. So this past week I have a student who turns in a discussion question response, it totally looks like something an instructor would write, not a student (it was summarizing a discussion students had, not taking part in the discussion). So immediately I stop and say “what in the world is this” – then I look at the student’s name. The student is a girl, the author of the post was written as if the author is a guy. The student has 1 kid, age 2 and supposedly just gave birth last week to kid #2 (nuts).
The author of the post claims to have no kids. So we have different vocabulary, different voice, different gender, and apparently no kids. So I email the student and tell her I don’t allow cheating and that students are expected to do their own work and I give her the opportunity to remove the post and post her own original work. The student then proceeds to argue with me that she just took “extra time” while in the hospital recovering from her labor to do “an extra good job”…ah did that “extra good job include getting a sex change, selling off your kids, and taking my job? Of course I didn’t ask this, I told her if she felt the work was hers she could explain to me why it didn’t look like her work. Needless to say faced with being charged with plagiarism, an offense that would get her an F for the class and quite possibly expelled from school, she opted to re-write her answer, it was considerably different to say the least. My thought – if you are going to be lazy enough to cheat, at least look at what you are trying to pass off as your own, I mean come on, this is a freshmen level class and a super easy assignment.
Counting down to baby…
So 86 days left of pregnancy, it doesn’t seem like that long of a time to be honest. This weekend and next weekend we are taking our birth education class. I am kind of excited to take the class, not because it is a class on birthing but because it just makes it seem like the little guy is coming soon. I have also started collecting advice about birth and baby care/feeding. If you have advice that you want to share please feel free, I am open to suggestions and in-put.So far the third trimester has been good, I can tell that Bean is getting bigger, he loves to move around and take up space. I have noticed that I am always hungry but feel like I can’t eat that much (oh how I long for some good fish tacos – this has been a craving for a long time, I even satisfied it last time we visited AZ). I also would love to have some yummy homemade salsa or pico and some guacamole (mmmm….Mexican food). So far we have yet to find any place in Utah that makes decent Mexican food, it has been quite disappointing and I think that makes the cravings even worse. As you can see from the blog, I do resort to making Mexican food at home, not that I am a bad cook, but I can’t duplicate Baja Fresh’s or Rubios’ fish tacos, trust me I keep trying and I keep failing, some day I will find their secret…just you wait. Maybe I could bribe a kid who cooks there or something.
