"I'm so glad you didn't wait until you finished school! You're so OLD! You can do it! We did it when we were young..." were Jeanne's mom's words right after they announced their oncoming addition.
So the impending due date is in mid-February, though there's some discussion & vagueness about the fetus's age. Our first OB did not do an ultrasound & calculated the age with the first day of Jeanne's last menstrual cycle. &, apparently, measuring the top of the head of the fetus in order to determine age is not as accurate measuring the belly & femur. According to the diameter of the top of the head, the fetus is 19 weeks old. But the other measurements indicate that Jeanne is now 17 weeks. A big difference, apparently.
Robby is back the PhD office, playing racquetball twice a week, sitting in on his advisor's class on the video-game industry, & TAing a basic communication theory class. He loves teaching & wishes he had two sections instead of one. At home, he plays Counterstrike on the Christian server, so when he turns on the speaker, Jeanne gets to hear, "God bless" & "Jesus is the answer to everything! What's 1 + 1? JESUS!" The players on the Christian server do not curse or disparage one another, like players do on other servers, so Robby enjoys playing with them, though he remarked recently that late night when no one was monitoring players' comments, he heard some heftily misogynistic statements. But, he gets to ask lots of questions about Christianity while shooting the terrorists and counter-terrorists in the game.
Jeanne has started a Doctor in Education program at USC. She is currently taking an Educational Psychology class called Learning & a Diversity class. Ed psych is completely new to her, but Diversity is more familiar, & she is weekly inspired by her Diversity professor. Even though she is only a month into the program, she finds herself closer to forming a dissertation idea. It feels good to be in school again.
Today, we're sitting at a secret place in Santa Monica - a community center in part funded by the Annenberg Foundation & city of Santa Monica. We've got a patio that overlooks a 1920s marble swimming pool, a wide beach, & the Pacific Ocean. It is so breathtaking here, but we can't but feel like we're intruding on the lives of the rich & famous. We were brought here by buddies Patrick & Michelle, our favorite Canadians. Unfortunately, the employees here locked the outlets so we don't get the "phat" power that Patrick claimed they got previous visits here. It seems that they don't want people like us sitting here all day lounging with our laptops. As if they can't afford the electricity pumped out from a few laptops!
It's beautiful in Los Angeles this time of year, especially at the beach. We don't come to beach nearly as much as we should. The intense summer heat has passed & our apartment is no longer sweltering. Our beta fish Three (or Practice Three) is a happy new member of the family. We talk to Three all the time & he responds by swimming around ferociously.
It's wonderful.
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