No news yet

I still don't have any adoption news, but thought I'd update the blog with a new post anyway. Sorry if it turns into babble.

Thanks to those of you who have left comments. It's nice to know there are others out there who are going through the same thing or have in the past. Something about comfort in company.

And welcome family members! I finally decided I'd waited long enough to tell my extended family about the adoption. I wanted to do a big "TA-DA!" announcement when I had my referral and photos of my little girl. But I caved in to my own excitement and let everyone know about this new little member of the family today. I probably should have done that a month or two ago, but I think I was waiting until it felt a bit more real to me. Not that I have any reason to doubt that I'll have a little girl home in my arms in a few months... but it just still feels so far away and unreal at this point. Maybe having more support and excitement from the family will help me feel more like a waiting mom and less like this is an abstract exercise.

Meanwhile, life goes on. We're about a third of the way through our semester. I'm getting ready for my 2nd round of tests in the freshman classes. We're about 2 weeks away from Midterms. I get to start talking about volcanoes in my Natural Disasters class next week. My favorite part of the semester. I schedule an unusually long time for that subject, as those of you who know me will understand. I get to sneak in a few of my own photos from Hawaii, Iceland, Ecuador, and Mt. St. Helens, which is fun. Well, it's fun for me anyway.

I'm chair of the Speaker Symposium [Lecture Series] committee at work. Our first speaker is scheduled for Monday, so I'm in 'what did I forget?' mode. I've got the theater reserved, dinner plans and hotel reservations made, a reception planned, a person to pick him up at the airport, and have organized as much publicity as I can handle. It'll be fine, it's just in my nature to get nervous before major events I'm in charge of. Thankfully I've got a great group of hard-working people on the committee so even if I did forget something we'll pull it together just fine.

The acquisitions editor of the book company contacted me today and said she wants to talk to me about the reviews of my prospectus and first chapter. I'm nervous about reading the reviews. I've done those types of reviews for other books and have been a bit hard on some of the authors. Especially when I review first editions. I expect no different from the reviewers of my book. I get to find out how thick my skin is one week from today.

So, that's my life right now. Work, more work, and anxiously awaiting my baby girl!