Mouse (and Other) Tales

So the Mouse Guy was here this afternoon and did the voodoo that he do, and now we'll see what happens. He was a lovely young man, which is a good thing, because I think he'll be a semi-regular here for a while, as I got the year's contract and we'll probably be seeing him every two or three months for the year. Ick, right? And I've got more cleaning up to do, although he says it will be two weeks or so until they're all gone, but it will be diminishing until then.

Not that I am ever moving out of this house while I live (which would involve packing on my part), but here's what I'd like: a new house with the entire framework of it to be poured cement. Think of it, this is a house that would withstand any hurricane or earthquake, and have incredible insulation. And no holes for anything to get in that you didn't invite through the front door. I'm just saying.

K is not feeling so well today, a result, I think, of going to class the last two nights in the damp, along with what my mother called "low resistance." It's that old immune system again, which stress will always affect in anybody, but she really has a tendency towards it. Here's hoping she rests it out over the weekend, since she's taking her comps next week, which are the final exams, so to speak, of a graduate program. Anyway, she was napping on the couch off and on all afternoon, so I didn't get a chance to look at my new toy, which is Wii Fit. Yes, yet another attempt by me to do something for my aging and aching body.

The book I'm reading on the Supreme Court is very good, but taking forever to finish, even though I feel like I'm reading a chunk of it every day. Very well written, if you're interested in that kind of thing. The book I'm deliberately avoiding, at least for now, is Twilight. For one, it doesn't interest me so much, but for another, I couldn't get my hands on it if I wanted to. I have three copies in the library (of book one, two of each of the others), and this is the book that made me have to learn how to use the library software to reserve books that are out for people, to create a waiting list. The three copies of the first book have gone out five times this week, and I had to turn down requests for it from the middle schools.

Busy day tomorrow, haircut and more kitchen cleaning.

WATCHING FAMILY GUY :: ENTRY #1910
READING: The Nine by Jeffrey Toobin