I co-taught a class, "Teaching to Beginners," with Genevieve, a sweet soul and intriguing Sanskrit scholar. It was really, really challenging. The students were pretty unruly, acting out in some crazy adolescent manner.
I'm still processing it.
So today I took it easy, having lunch with Donna, who is going to Italy in just a few days, and mellowing out at home. The rain keeps coming.
There was a woman in teacher training this weekend who claimed to have a stomach flu; I don't know if I caught it or what, but my throat is INCREDIBLY sore.
Oh wait, throat.
She said "stomach."
I'm feeling achey all over.
Lord, please don't let me get sick!
Om Namah Shivayah.
I just got a writing assignment a few minutes ago, so I will probably tend to that either tonight or first thing tomorrow.
After the unruly class, I came home and read Jenny McCarthy's Belly Laughs in one sitting.
And that sitting lasted about 15 minutes.
It's a light read.
Nothing new there.
She's kind of funny, I guess.
To be honest I was a little disappointed. I think she's cute and I expected more.
It's an interesting study in what happens when a sort of shallow celebrity type goes through pregnancy. There are all the usual jokes about cellulite, sex drive, weight gain, maternity clothes. Yawn. Her chapter on industrial strength deathscented farting was amusing, I will admit.
Her problems with constipation were the most compelling part of the book for me. She actually went two weeks without dropping the kids off at the pool and had to have fecal material surgically removed.
I will never complain about missing a day again. And that's in my NORMAL, unpregnant life.
As I've mentioned earlier in this blog, my pregnancy poops have been FANTASTIC. I am eating well and drinking lots and lots of fluids. Maybe that's it. And no caffeine.
On a positive note, Belly Laughs does help to clear out some of the negativity you get in all those other pregnancy books. I do want to know what can go wrong, and what symptoms to look for, but instead of reading only about THAT when I turn to "what happens during Week 25" in my preggers books, I'd like to see more of all the miraculous changes that are happening in both my body and in my baby's body.
Andrew and I were reading "What to Expect" and "Your Pregnancy Week by Week" last night and started laughing at what a BUMMER they are. It's like having Debbie Downer come with you to the obgyn's office and freak you out as you wait.
I guess I must be in the positive phase.
Yippee!
