I feel like a new boy

Random thoughts:

1) The Dems took control of the House and Senate, and Rummy is gone, all in one day! Yippee! And Iowa has a Democratic governor. In Iowa City, this guy who ran a progressive thinktank in the building next to me (actually his window was directly across from mine. Hope I closed the blinds when changing clothes) is going to congress for the first time. Seriously, it's like Christmas in Nov.

2) One of my students called me "Mom" accidentally yesterday. I laughed my ass off which embarrassed the hell out of the student. That probably further reinforced the connection between me and said maternal figure, if you think about it.

3) I had a dream last night that I was watching a video of my friends and I working on some sort of craft project for charity. I was wearing a bandana covering my hair, I had lost weight, and I was wearing a button-up shirt with cargo pants. I was quickly drawing designs on a piece of fabric and cutting them out, working feverishly and impulsively. Most of the shots of me were in profile, so my nose was sort of prominent. I looked like someone, not me, and I couldn't figure it out - and then it dawned on me, I looked like the artist formerly known as OOMMA!

4) Carolyn came to visit last weekend. Now she is back in MD. :(