Conversations about Klenex.

I have had a stuffy nose and lots of snot for quite some time. I have a wimpy cough, too, although it is finally getting better. But the snot, it won't go away. I'm really sick of it.

Here are excerpts from an e-mail conversation today between James and me:

Me: Could you take out the bathroom garbage today?
James: I will take out the trash. It looks like we may need to buy more tissues. You are going through them quite quickly.
Me: We bought some at Costco. Aren't they under the sink? Do I have extra snot because . . . A) I am pregnant and pregnancy causes snot or B) I have a cold and a lowered immune system due to pregnancy which means that I will have this cold for 5 months?
James: I don't know why you have extra snot. These two things that you mention could certainly be the problem. I hope that it only last 5 months, because that is a lot of tissues.
Me: It's already been more than a month. Good thing we bought a case of them.

Field of Dreams

I am supposed to be A) doing homework and B) grading some tests. I am sitting at the kitchen table at the computer, but not accomplishing much. In the living room, for noise sake, I turned on the TV and I am listening to "Field of Dreams." It's a good movie and I like it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHTsQ9qePrQ

Tired Haley

So Haley has caught me sleeping numberous times. So I thought that I would show you what a pregnant teacher / student does 10 minutes after she arrives home. Like the post below says things in the Binggeli home are busy. It seems that we take a nap at almost every moment of free time. This picture goes to show that we are catching up before the big day. Wish us luck, because we are going to need it. The words "Wait until you have children" are ringing in my ears.

Until the next sleepy moment, take care.

New post

I am blogging again to avoid homework. I am struggling with a class that grades us on weekly True/False quizzes about the readings. I've been doing the readings, but then I do poorly on the quizzes. This week, I tried to read, but just couldn't get through the material, so I decided to take the quiz without reading. The quiz is timed, but still allows a big window to look up answers in the book. I did that. I just got my worse score yet: 50%. Ugh. I guess I'll go back to reading the book again next week. Who gives true/false quizzes in a master's program anyway? Dumb.

In other USU school news, my elective class (mentioned in the last post) is actually kind of cool. Why? It's not related to educational research and I am learning HTML. Here is my new website: haleybinggeli.orgfree.com. It's a work in progress, but I feel quite proud of it at the moment (although I just tried to open it in Explorer and it wouldn't work - try Mozilla).

To update things from a few posts ago:

--> James accepted the National Guard promotion and will be traveling to St. George each month. He is no longer SGT (Sergeant) Binggeli but can now be referred to as SSG (Staff Sergeant) Binggeli, although he would really like to become 2LT (2nd Lieutenant) Binggeli at some point in the nearer than further future. We'll see. He's now in the 213th FSC (Forward Support Company) instead of the 214th FSC. The 214th supported the northern Utah 145th FA (Field Artillery) and the 213th FSC supports the southern Utah 222nd FA (sometimes called the "triple deuce").

--> Baby. She is still cooking, but wriggles around quite a bit. I am finally becoming much less inconspicuous. My students are making comments. Things like:

"Mrs. Binggeli, your shirt is really getting tight. Did you shrink it?"

"Why didn't you tell us?"

"How long have you known?"

"Is that why your student teacher is here?"

"Are you going to name her after me?"

"Mrs. Binggeli, are you pregnant?"

--> House. Our neighbor's house has been broken into for the second time in a couple of months. They have decided to move. I feel really bad for them. I don't quite understand why they've been hit twice, but I am interested to see what they list their house for and how long it takes to sell. The sign went up tonight.

I feel old

So I am really boring, I know. All I have to blog about is basketball, stress, and school. Oh well. (In case you are wondering, Utah basketball is utterly terrible this year, and getting worse each game, I am still stressed, and school is school.)

Yesterday I got an e-mail. It was strange. It was from a girl who is in one of my online USU classes. She recognized my name and thought she'd contact me to see how I was doing in the class because she was struggling. She wondered if I had any suggestions. This class is an undergrad/grad class and I am taking it as an elective for my MEd program.

Given that, though, why would this random person in my class be asking me for help? . . . . because she is a former student of mine.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen. I am now enrolled in higher education courses with people I once taught as 8th graders. I know it's cliche to say, but this really makes me feel old.