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I thought I would share Boigie's new sleeping space with you....He likes to alternate every few weeks. He briefly frequents the space for those few weeks before abandoning it all together. He, of course, has his tried and trues. Our bed, his perch, and the linen closet whenever I've put off laundry long enough that he squeeze his wiggle waggle in there.

On to business:
First things first, my mother has come and gone. She was here for only a long weekend...I was bummed that I couldn't take off on Monday but I had to attend a conference for work which I really couldn't get of because I got CEU's for it and my mom also came at this time last year to meet M's parents and I skipped out on one of the days for that. So her visit went really really quickly. She arrived on a much delayed flight on Friday night which put the kabosh on our dinner plans but we still managed to fit in a beer or two at our neighborhood pub. Saturday we walked down to the Charles River to watch the Head of the Charles Regatta. It was a great New England Fall day....sunny with a great chill in the air. I love living close enough to Harvard Square that we can walk and we don't have to worry about fighting our way onto a bus full of tourists who have no idea about bus etiquette. For dinner, we went to one Kashish, our favorite Indian restaurant. Aside from them giving me way too spicy Chicken Tikka Masala, it was good as always. On Sunday, my mom wanted to cook so after a lengthy trip to Russo's and the other grocery store who can not begin to compare, we started cooking and we remained cooking all through my precious Sunday football (I did abysmally if that's a word) until we finally could serve dinner at about 830pm. I met my mom for lunch on Monday (conference benefit, uber lon lunches). She flew out Tuesday after I left for the conference. As usual, the visit went way too fast and always gives me a taste of what it would be like to actually live by mom and meet for lunch etc and then it's ripped away. I've lived here ever since I was 21 so I've never really had the pleasure of living near my mom when I could really appreciate it.





Today was the final day of the conference and MY GOD I can't possibly listen to another case study!! I was so glad to walk out tonight. It's a very informative conference but you could almost play Palin bingo with all the buzzwords that are repeated over and over again. For today's lunch excursion, I did some shopping at Copley Place and decided that these items would enjoy a better life with me and probably should journey home: Ruffle Packet Henley Sweater and hmmm..the other one is not posted on their site. You'll have to trust me it's cute. It's a tan, chunkier knit sweater with a collar that can be made into a shawl collar. There were a few other sweaters there that I liked, but I decided I could make them or something very similar so I passed.

School is getting a little more stressful right now. Next Monday I have my advising session for next semester followed immediately by the Random Systems exam where my lab partner and I each have to pick a patient scenario out of a hat and perform the appropriate exams on each other. Next semester is my first clinical and I'm nervous about it mainly because I have to do 150 hours of clinic time over the course of 15 weeks and most clinics are M-F 9-5 which are also my work hours. I have no idea right now how I'm going to finagle this. Oh, and we have class every other Tuesday at 4pm so I also have to leave early that day to get there in time. Yikes. From what I understand, each subsequent clinical requires more and more hours ( I have three total) so I have no idea how this is going to shake out.

Knitting news...I'm doing a quasi February sweater. I have also learned that M and I will most likely going to visit baby SEM this coming Sunday so I'm signing off now in the hopes that I can finish this sweater by then. And yes, I'll take a picture..I've been really bad about doing that lately but it always seems like so much of a process. Take a decent shot, load it up, load onto this page...It's just easier to tell you and show you at the end.

And with that I'm off!