the world is spinning too fast for me these days...

hi!

sorry it's been so long since i posted anything, but the last week has been insanely busy with meetings (seriously, all the damn time!) and i've been battling a head cold that inflicted me with incapacitating nausea. i stood up out of bed yesterday morning only to fall back on the bed and watch as everything started spinning... now i'm shooting steroids up my nasal cavity so i can maintain my vestibular equilibrium. (in other news, Miami University is now facing a pending epidemic of flu! so the rumor mill says, if ~30 more students are diagnosed with it at the local seedy health center, school's out! dare i say this is one thing i don't mind seeing passed around?)

the problem with violent nausea is that it prevents you from both sleeping and eating. as a result, the light-headedness continues, the wobbly knees are a-knocking, and the days become extremely hard to pass. last night i had fitful dreams, of murderers and death by gunfire (lately all my dreams end with death, sometimes my own. hm...)

my first week of teaching classes was fantastic. the moment i realized my self as a "teacher" and my self as a student/peer/friend were not different, that they'd melded together without any effort on my part, was a breakthrough of the most joyful kind. reading student papers and feeling like my work could fulfill some need ... oh it made my heart sing, i tell you!

anyway, i've got to do some more prep for class tonight, and i need to find something warm to wear! if there's one thing i won't miss about Ohio, it's the awful January weather.

hoping for stable ground,
stephanie