I missed posting yesterday. There was something I kept thinking of that I wanted to write about...but by the time I'd sit down to write it, the thought was gone. At which point I'd get up and do something else, planning to return to write it out when the thought came back. It came back...and left, several times. And in the end, I have no idea what that fleeting thought was. So no post. And here we are.
On the baby name front, it seems safe to say that Isabelle is out if it's a girl. Which makes me sad, but...there are FAR too many Isabella's, I'm over the whole Twilight "thing" and hate the association, AND, a co-worker of Mr. Random's who just annoys the hell out of him (nice enough guy, just happens to have every odd quirk that pushes every one of Mr. Random's buttons) is having a girl in October (well, presumably his wife is doing the having) and they've pretty much settled on the name Isabella. Mr. Random hadn't liked the popularity of the name before, but this really finished it off for him. So there were are.
I've also pretty much ruled out Aiden. It just doesn't seem right anymore, and - again - the popularity thing.
We have lists with 3 boys names and 3 girls names at this point, and are pretty settled on the middle names for each. I think we'll go with those and hope one of the 6 seems "right" upon staring at the little one's scrunched face. If not...well, the hospital has WiFi. :)
We watched Where the Wild Things Are the other night. Well, that's inaccurate. We started to watch that movie. And quickly, both of us were looking at each other in horror. And then boredom. It really just didn't do it for us. And, quite frankly, convinced us that children are rather frightening creatures after all and that we'd prefer not to have any. Quite a predicament I find myself in considering that recent conclusion. (I am kidding...mostly)
Seriously though, the boy in the movie seems to have some major issues. Especially issues of loneliness. I think I was a lonely child from time to time, but my gosh. MY GOSH. It really did freak us out. But our kid will be all rainbows and butterflies, right? (now I'm completely kidding)
The weather has taken a turn for pleasant. We've had rain showers and cooler temperatures. I'm hoping the change is permanent and signaling "fall" (as if Phoenix actually has seasons beyond "warm" and "hot, hot, hot!") but we'll see. The end of the 10 day forecast shows temps climbing back up into the triple digits.
I had lunch with Advisor the other day too. She wanted to see me once more before Baby was born. Lunch was yummy, and it was a mostly fun chat. It involved a lot of unsolicited advice from her about everything from labor to breastfeeding to child rearing - which for the most part I agreed with, had already heard, or appreciated, so that was good. We talked work a little bit - I still have mixed feelings about how to spend my time for the next 5 or so months. You see, I'm funding myself, thanks in large part to her, and based on that, feel that I can do whatever the hell I want. If that means I'm focused 100% on the baby and do nothing towards the PhD, well I think that's my right. It's probably also stupid. She has some ideas for how to spend my time and assures me that after the first few weeks I'll want the intellectual activity. I suspect she's right...but I don't like it. (I'm a bit ornery) I'm planning on attending a conference in the spring that I need to submit an abstract for...I believe the deadline's in October or thereabouts, so that'll be something "intellectual" for me to do. (as in, dust off the abstract I worked on over the summer and get that in) Beyond that...it'd be smart to keep up on the literature...and probably to play with some internet programming options. But I don't think I'll make solid goals/plans yet. We'll see how I handle the baby-rearing part first. I had had dreams (last spring) of taking my master's thesis and turning it into a publishable paper during this time. Sounds lofty at this point...but would probably be worthwhile. And it'd be a nice FU to the fine folk who assured me I'd be "worthless" and should take the semester off (yes, this includes Advisor who now has all these ideas for how I should spend my time and suggests I'll want the intellectual stimulation - which one is it lady?).
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