Another Snow Day

While I am ecstatically happy to have a day lounging around at home instead of working, it comes right after a three day weekend for Martin Luther King. That means I haven't been at school for 4 days. I am very worried about the creatures who are living in my classroom. I have about 15 African dwarf frogs and 12 or so tiny crabs. This is for our 'Animal Studies' science module. We have already suffered the deaths of 3 craps - reason unknown and I don't know how 4 days without food or heat will effect them. It was very strange at first to have creatures in the classroom but I have got used to them now and would hate to turn up tomorrow morning to discover an aquatic annihilation. Plus the millipedes arrive this week.

Sickly In Seattle.

Oh how I struggled this weekend. It was attending a Fulbright Workshop for the UK, Czech and Hungarian grantees with my mentor Dan Brudos.
3 nights in a city I have wanted to visit ever since I was obsessed with Kurt, Courtney and grunge. The city of the first Starbucks, the Space Needle, some kind of mountain, Frasier and Niles Crane.... And I had flu.

I always brag in the UK that I am never ill and wow did I pay for it this week. Ears blocked, nose running, throat sore, cough productive, muscles aching, head throbbing the whole lot. From what I could make out everyone else had a great time, staying up late drinking and bonding (I was in bed) and taking a harbour cruise and seal watching (I was in bed). You get the idea. It wouldn't have been so bad had Seattle not lived up to my expectations but it was a fantastic city, full of quirky shops, bars, restaurants and loads of interesting people. As Sian would say FML.

PS Having to stay home from work ill is not as much fun without Jeremy Kyle to give you a lovely smug feeling!!