PhD Update

Or, actually, PhDon't. That's right, Univ. of Ark. turned me down. They said I didn't write well enough to be in their program. Can you believe that? 30+ first place writing awards in journalism, three different syndicated newspaper columns, books that completely sold out their printings and I don't write well enough to participate in their PhD program.

Actually, it all comes down to my age. I'm too old for their program. Oh, they won't say that...it's against the law! But they want younger folks who have never been out of college and have a long publishing career ahead of them.

So, I keep looking....

AAuugghhh!!!!!!!!

I've been home from the dentists' office for about an hour and a half and let me tell you this really is not a lot of fun. The dentist only got half the work done because he spent over half an hour on just one tooth and, in my opinion, should have cut it out but spent all that time bruising my mouth and leaving the other half of my teeth in place.

So I get to go back for the second half in about a month. Rather than get my denture and bridge within weeks, it's going to be months.

And, to quite literaly add insult to injury, I went to a certain "all in one" department store where I have all my prescriptions filled and they wouldn't accept my Rx insurance because, while they DO accept the HMO, the HMO doesn't accept prescriptions from my dentist....

So I have to go back tomorrow for a follow up from the extractions and you can be sure that they're going to hear about that little surprise.

The meds are finally starting to kick in, so I'm going to go set back and wait to fall over...

...and yet we endure!

It's been a couple of weeks since the debacle over the dinosaur poo pad. We finally managed to construct one of the two storage buildings and have plans to erect the second one this weekend. In the meantime we have been busily planting apple trees and a weeping cherry tree (beautiful thing, looks like a cross between a weeping willow and a cherry tree...hence the name, I guess), putting in dozens of petunias and dianthus and creating a new "shade" bed where we will be planting elephant ears (what the hell do we do with the REST of the elephant??), and other plants of the same concept.

Next Wednesday I'm going to the dentists and having all but the front six bottom teeth removed. I'll get a full upper dental plate and a lower bridge. It'll be interesting to have teeth that don't bite the owner!

That Friday we have the practice session for a wedding I'm officiating at, and then the next day, Saturday, we have the wedding as well as Bree's Senior Prom.

Yes, Bree is "proming" and graduating. Terrifying and yet beautiful.

Whups....gotta go annoy my next class....more later.