Busy, Busy, Busy

My, my, I have hardly Twittered today at all. I was away from my desk a lot during the school day, and I was home very briefly after school until I finally got back around 7.30, and then I was on the phone for like, ever.

I was working with a teacher's three classes today on an excellent project, the first step of which required each student to sign up for a Gmail account. (The second step was to open a blog account on Blogger.) Gmail totally crapped out on me, right in the middle of the first class. It seems that getting 20 simultaneous requests to open mail accounts from what looks like a single location -- 20 computers on the same network and so with the same IP address -- looks to them like spam. On the page that explains this, it actually says that if you're a teacher trying to get accounts for a whole class, well, they apologize for the inconvenience. Well, thanks.

We just told the kids in the second and third classes to sign up for the accounts at home, and to let me know if they needed me to do it for them (i.e, they don't have computers at home.) There was only one, plus the ten or so kids in the first class whom we didn't tell to do it for homework because we hadn't figured out what was going on yet. In my brief time home this afternoon between nails and going out for dinner, I took care of that task.

Dinner out was supposed to be with the Chum and the Other Chai (my Disney traveling partners from last November), but, surprise! Chum had also called our other dear, dear retired friend E, so she was there too, and this was totally just the anti-stress experience. It was wonderful. And here's a crazy thing too: E says that her 9 year old granddaughter was recently diagnosed with Crohn's as well. (One of E's sons -- not this girl's father -- has had colitis since birth, literally, which she figures is also Crohn's, although never labeled as such. He and his niece are on the same medication (but not the same as mine.)

And then home, a quick call to R, who is going to a wedding out-of-state tomorrow (the wedding is Sunday, but she's going by car to South Carolina), and my sister, who's going out-of-state for a few days as well. Then I tried to get eldest nephew JJ on the phone, since it's his birthday, but no luck. (34; how can that be? Wasn't I watching Sesame Street with him just the other day? Telling him stories while I rocked him to sleep? No, eh.) Couldn't get him, so I called his brother instead, to whom I have owed a call for over a month, and had a delightful long talk with him because he is one of my favorite humans on the planet.

And now K is home from class, and is not subbing tomorrow, so I can sleep in a little, until 5.40 instead of 5.15. Joy.

All in all, a very nice, if busy, afternoon and evening.

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