Space Invaders

I understand not everyone has the same concept of “personal space.” In some cultures people stand inches apart while speaking to one another. In other cultures a car isn’t considered full until there are at least 4 people in the backseat. But for the most part, here in Georgia, we have a 3 foot comfort zone.

My personal space has been invaded. I am thinking of putting up a sign or fence or something.

When we help new students to register we have a sheet they must sign off on stating we told them about fees, services, and their responsibilities as students. I asked a student to sign this sheet and he grabbed the pencil that was holding my hair in a twist.

I said “Seriously?” and the student looked at me as if I were the one with a problem and stated he didn’t have a pencil.

Wouldn’t most people consider this an invasion of personal space?

Skeletons

I always say my house is clean enough to be healthy, dirty enough to be happy. After what I found this weekend I am either going to have to quit saying that or start doing a little more housework.

When you work full time and attend classes in the evenings, you have to sacrifice something. The something I cut back on is housework. I would much rather laze around with Mister, drinking daiquiris and dreaming about the garden than strip and wax the wood floors. I keep the laundry and dishwasher going and swab out the bathroom once a week. My house gets by on a kiss and a promise.

Between semesters I take a day or two off from work and give the house a good going over. I could not believe what I found this time. A mouse skeleton! Not a mouse, a mouse skeleton. It had been dead so long it was a skeleton.

Our windows do a weird transformers type move so that I can clean the outside of the glass while standing inside the house. When I did that transformer move on the window in the dog-room I found a mouse skeleton in the sill.

I shop-vac’d the skeleton and thought about my saying. Clean enough to be healthy, dirty enough to be happy. We are happy here, but now I am not so sure about the healthy part…