december 20, 2000. One more day! One more day of slacking & movies & watching them give little presents to one another. I've taken my overheads for tomorrow and shrunk them into one sheet that I can photocopy & distribute. I knew that I'd never get this damn book done...oh well. Next semester. Tonight I was super cleaning chick, doing all those chores I had left for myself this week. I want the house to be clean when we leave, if only to avoid the spoiled food stink that comes when one doesn't take care of the garbage on the way out. The Boy returns from the road tomorrow, and the fact that I've done squat-all around the house during his absence is intensely embarrassing. All of which is to say, I cranked up the womyn-empowering tunes and did dishes for hours instead of killing time with the copy of Brave New World that I'm giving my brother for Christmas. (I always read books before I give them. It's just one of the things I do.) I vacuumed, too. Heck, I even vimmed the stove - usually it only gets a wipe with a sponge. You would think that I was a sensible domestic girl, now wouldn't you? Princess Leah came to the school today, and we got to swap stories with Poly (the student teacher who was HRH's best friend in highschool). It was loads of fun. I'd almost forgotten what it was like to hang around a friend. There's laughing, for instance. Haven't done much of that outside the home lately. And this whole mutual acquaintance thing - it's so much fun to just say a name & start the story, without any explanation of who this person is in the grand scheme of things. HRH also went through my wedding pictures in class today, raving about the quality of the shots and doing her best to pick St. Pete out of the background in crown shots. She's sooo cute. Some of the students wandered over, but since they only knew me, it wasn't as interesting for them and they soon wandered back to door decorating. But I can sense that they wanted to try, which cheers me. I'm going to do evaluations with them tomorrow, so I'm a bit worried that my feedback will be overwhelmingly negative. We shall see.