Recovery?

I've been sick for about four days now.  Not anything bad, but bad enough to be annoying.  I'm almost better, I think, the only thing left is my voice.  Of course, now that I've been sick for almost a week, I'm having to get back into a regular work routine again.  Have you ever noticed that it's a lot easier to get into a lazy routine than into a work routine?  <sigh>

In other news, here is a cute picture of the kids' Halloween costumes this year that Jenny sent me.  :)

Speaking of the kids, I've planned what I'm going to buy them for Christmas this year come Black Friday.  But don't tell them!!!
For William:
  
For Michael:
  
For Carly:
  

So that will be one Wii game and one Barbie-size doll each.  I'm hoping the Barbie-size GI Joes will encourage the boys to play more with Carly, who LOVES Barbies.  I do feel sorry for the Prince Ken guy though.  He's going to be living in a dollhouse with something like 14 girls, 8 or 10 of which are disney princesses and all of which enjoy running around in their undies.  I grew up with five girls, at least one of which seemed to think that she was a princess, so I can sympathize with him.  <<shiver>>  My guess is that the ninjas will just be occasional visitors.  I was thinking of getting them more legos, but, to be honest, I'm starting to think that we may have enough... for now.

Oh, and today my Telephonophobia was ingrained a little more.  I got my first bite for a job opportunity next year!  : D  North Texas called to set up a skype interview with me for next week.  The university is pretty darn close to the kids, so I'm hoping to do well.  The professor who called had somewhat of a heavy accent and I was nervous, bad combination.  Anyway, after setting up an interview for next Wednesday evening he politely asked how my dissertation was going.  Well, at first I thought that he had asked how my application was going.  Not sure exactly what he meant I hedged and said: "I'm not sure.  But I hope its going well."  He laughed, and then made a point of saying that the availability of this position hadn't been finalized yet.  Oops.  Or, in the words of my dissertation supervisor: "YOU SAID WHAT?????"  Anyway, now that I'm going to be starting job interviews, feel free to keep me in your thoughts and prayers.

Oh yeah, I've been stopping by Goodwill on occasion to see if they have any interesting movies dubbed in Spanish.  I've been watching such movies as well as reading books in Spanish to help, get this, improve my Spanish.  Which has suffered somewhat after doing almost all my graduate coursework in English and only speaking in Spanish on a regular basis with beginning/intermediate level Spanish students.  Anyway, yesterday I watched The Ring for the first time.  Now, I'm not normally one for horror.  Though I do quite enjoy several comedy horrors such as Tremors I, II, III, and IV, The Care Bears, and Poltergeist.  For those of you who aren't familiar with The Ring.  It's not a comedy horror film.  But I did manage to get some sleep last night.  :)  Which just goes to show that prayer works.