I’m in the glider, 1:32PM, and I still feel as if Sunday morning hasn’t passed. S and I are watching the Brew game. M and T are at Target preparing for T’s birthday party and buying water bottles that, I hope, the boys do not lose immediately. Where did the morning go? I guess I slept later than usual, near 6:30, then hit the gym for a hard workout from 8-9:15AM. I ate, showered, watched a Burn Notice, and started reading Tunneling to the Center of the Earth.

How about some highlights of the week:

• I almost finished Boyle’s After the Plague, one of the most relentlessly depressing books I’ve ever read. Or maybe I’m not in the mood. Last night I decided to skip the last two stories because I couldn’t see a good reason to continue.
• On Friday afternoon I checked out I Love You, Beth Cooper at the North Shore. The actor playing the main male character overacted in full-geek mode but the girl playing the title role (she also played a cheerleader in Heroes…Hayden something) was perfect. I loved the cool, nearly empty Friday afternoon theater. Summer moviegoing rocks.
• We leave for Chautauqua in six days. I’ve started planning my trip-reading. This will be busy at work, as I’m teaching every day but giving the students off to write Friday, but at least I don’t have afternoon meetings scheduled. I haven’t finished the annual report but I’m waiting on some data from Institutional Research and I’d rather knock that f—ker out sooner than later.
• The boys are in good spirits. Yesterday the neighborhood kids/moms staged a massive water balloon fight. N wants to sign up for Tai Quon Doe (sp?). T stayed over at a friend’s last night. I missed him.
• Yesterday I hit Costcutters and had my hair cut military short. A hair-cutting apprentice did the job. She was friendly but probably shouldn’t have told me she was an apprentice.

That’s it for now. I need a few breaks from work before the fall semester kicks into gear. More later.