So yes, for those of you who've asked, it's been a rough week and a half. Apparently I should have majored in finance, not English. Silly me. But I thought this was hilarious today. (I wonder if it's only funny if you've had your nose to the Wall Street Journal for the past three weeks...)
September Madness
Yard work is not my thing. But when you own a house, it is inevitable. Today I rented a chainsaw on a pole. Yes, that's right, a chainsaw stuck to the end of a pole that telescopes to 11 feet. I used it to chop down a myriad of dead branches on the tree in our front yard. I also borrowed the ladder from our neighbor to get up to the really high branches. It is quite precarious to ascend a 17' ladder and cut with an 11' pole.
I like posting on our blog, and even more I like reading posts on other people's blogs. So it makes no sense that I have gone so long without a real post here. It's just that it's been so hot. And so busy. And so...okay, hot and busy.
Actually, we are finally getting our air conditioning fixed on Friday, and, right on cue, the beautifully cool fall weather just set in. I know it sounds like I'm complaining (just noting the irony!), but I'm so not--it is so worth living here just for fall. The humidity and the tourists both go away, the sun becomes friend instead of enemy, the leaves start to turn brilliant colors, I find time to bake... Mmmm, fall is delicious!
I realize, too, that fall posts seem to be a little more random than the ones, say, at Christmas, or over the summer. That's okay, too, we kind of like it when nothing happens around here. Right now:
* Parley Vou? This week Jason started French classes every day, first thing in the morning. He's been dusting off that junior high French from fifteen years ago. It aches him to be up and at work so early, but he sounds pretty sexy while he's doing his homework.
* Commas. So, I can't speak a lick of French, but while Jason is etudie, I'm mastering the art of the properly placed comma. I'm taking an editing class this semester, and it turns out that I should not be an editor. Even though I think sentence diagramming is a kick in the pants. Seriously.
* Hockey Skates. As if French wasn't enough, Jason is also learning to play hockey once a week. I think it's going to be awesome when I get to be the hockey wife. Fight, fight, fight...
* Stories. For the first time, this semester I'm taking two classes a week instead of just one. My second one is a folklore class on the art of the narrative. It turns out I have to start recording stories that people tell so that I can use them for papers, so don't be surprised if I pull out a mini-tape recorder in the middle of a conversation.
* Thursdays. Between grammar and French and hockey and folklore...and Sudan and lame ducks and long work days that go by too fast...the best thing that we will be doing all week is this. Yessssss...
So, during the hurricane last weekend, our air conditioner went out. While we are uber thankful that it is not still August, one of the unfortunate side effects of hurricane weather is oppressive humidity, the likes of which we did not see all summer. There was a time (before DC) when I thought that the purpose of an air conditioner was to cool a room, but it turns out that this is false. The real purpose of an air conditioner is to take away the humidity.
Needless to say, there have been a lot of cold showers in our house lately. Which made the fact that this morning we woke up to no water at all just a little worse than it might otherwise have been. There was a water main break on our street, so I bundled up my sweaty self and went to work, uber thankful for the gym in my building. Hopefully the water is back on soon, and hopefully we only have a few more days of sweatiness until we can get our air conditioner replaced...just in time for the cool, fall weather to set in.
On a happier note, I have more nephew pictures to share. Cole knows that Baby Troy is "so cute," but he doesn't usually have a lot of time for him between running and "ribbetting" and eating watermelon (a few of his favorite things). However, he got to hold him while I was there last week, and he told Troy that he would take him fishing. So adorable. There are suddenly going to be a lot of boys in our family in a few months. Casey will be so happy. My trip to Idaho last week was quick and filled with work days and events with my boss, so it didn't offer a whole lot of carefree social time. But Jenny and Troy came to stay with us while Chad worked, so I did get to spend my evenings getting to know Troy better and falling more in love with his gummy smile. He will be so big by the time I see him again!
watch TV this weekend. Like eating at a Middle Eastern food festival at a Melike Greek Orthodox Church in McLean. And Jason and Patrick went to a Nats game. And today we spent the day at Mount Vernon. 
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