Delays

My phone has reminded me that it's been over 100 days since my last blog post. In those hundred days I completed my first year of PhD land- and didn't fail, I taught 9 kids in a summer course at the crack of dawn, I flew home, taught speech children, got a cat, and started year 2. Some of them may be milestones, in other ways it's more of the same. Teach class, take class, read, pet cat and try not to think about the other things on your to do list.
But let's focus (now 4 weeks into the new semester) on the fun things: new cat! Burke is his name and he is absurdly fluffy. He's two and was rescued by a woman who noticed he didn't have any front claws of the strays she was feeding. So home he came with my parents (who are suckers for pretty cats) and then he and I flew all the way to Phoenix. He's 15 pounds of furrball who enjoys chewing on bones, playing with anything that has feathers, and long cat naps on top of my dresser. It's been fun teaching him to do tricks. So far he knows how to sit, beg, turn around, and high five (my favorite). And with that update, I need to go clean my apartment to minimize the catastrophic amount of hair (see what I did there?).