Not Much, You?

Another rainy day, another blah blog entry. I figure I could just not post anything since there's no big news (well, there is, but it's not my news) and all I've done today is watch about five hours worth of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in preparation for trying to finish that chapter of the dissertation later this week. I really loved that silly show. For a while, when the show was still running, people would say to me "you've gotta watch this show-- it's so up your alley." And I'd humor them, yeah yeah. Whatever. But when I finally did start watching, I was an addict from early on. We used to watch two hours of it almost every night-- FX ran it from 5 to 7, right at dinner prep & eating time. So we caught up on it fairly quickly once I started watching. Of course, now I have all 7 seasons on DVD. I can sit and watch it and it actually is work-- preparing to write about it means you have to be really familiar with the episodes.

The chapter is about 3/4 ready already. I thought I was going to have to go in and gut it, get rid of a lot of the writing that I did last summer, but it's actually not too bad. I need some more fine tuned thesis statements, and the conclusion is totally not there yet. But it's really not as bad as I thought it was. So that's good news.

Andrew's working, so I've got puttering about the house to do. I hate weekends the most because he ought to be here. But he will be later. And we're having company so I have to clear the bar of the daily debris that catches there. And make the bed. (See? Mundane.)

The news that I do have is that one of my nieces is pregnant. Due in November. She's a bit on the young side but she swears (and I WILL hold her to this) that she won't let this stop her from finishing her college and doing something with her life. She'd better not. Fine, I said. You kids just can't let me do anything by myself.

The funny thing is that just this morning, as part of the cleaning the room that will be known as nursery (RTWBKAN), I stumbled on the scrap book I made about six years ago for the whole family. I was looking through it at the kids, who were kids then still. Looking at pictures of them, sighing over the way things change in a few years. Thinking of how much different our family looks already (with two new spouses on the part of the older ones, and more to come as far as new family members both by marriage and this baby).

So. That's my day. How's your weekend shaping up?