Firetrucks are Red

Work is proving to be an interesting distraction from waiting for codename: CAMPER to decide to grace the outside-of-womb world with his presence. And no, we still don’t have a solid name; and yes, we may be bringing him home with a birth certificate that reads: Baby Boy Hattaway. And yes, we’ve discussed that as a possible name. And no, it will not be the final name. Truth told, there is some appeal to not naming the child until he decides what name he wants in the world and sending him on some kind of a quest to find that name; however, with grandparents, aunts and uncles, and Erin I don’t think no name baby is going to work and that we will get to decide on a name sooner rather than later (especially since full-term is on Sept 22, 2008 and we enter September with a bang on Monday) so that codname: CAMPER has a name and not a moniker.

Regardless, Erin has been going to work and appears to be doing a little bit better. They (doctors) have her on prednisone and iron. The combination of which seems to be helping her have a little more energy, though going to work has proven to be a bit difficult for long periods of time, sitting in most cars (any car really) is a pain in the back, and she is up every hour (nearly) to do things before getting another hours worth of sleep only to wake up again; and waking up at something like 6 a.m. and then two hours later crawling back into bed with me so I can wake up. And waking up is not fun.

Who likes mornings?

Okay, there are people out there who do, but when you (and by you I actually mean me) spend half the night in the bathroom because of what feels like rather centralized gas pain with the outcome that whenever you lie down the pain actually gets worse and sitting up causes cramps in odd places and reading has actually gotten worse than the pain, well… waking up not exactly the most fun thing you will ever do. Still, work is an interesting distraction until school starts up (full swing) next week and I take four classes with three hundred books each and (ostensibly) a lot of papers to write, the outcome is a little daunting and work may prove to be less of a distraction and more of a distractor.

On the positive side (for me), House and Bones and other totally awesome television shows are starting the new seasons next week. And since we (and by this I mean the TV viewing people) are not worried about another writers strike or actors strike or crew strike since strike season is over (only happens every seven or nine years folks), we might actually get to watch entire seasons of these shows and have plot lines work through to the very end. That would be totally cool. On top of which, some of the plot developments meant for last season, might get pushed to this season and plots that would’ve lasted a couple of episodes and be disappointingly cool could last more episodes, well… as a fan I think the beginning of the new television season with fewer reality programs and more scripted programs is just sho-diggety and sweet.

At the same time I am trying to finish Scott Westerfeld’s Pretties before school starts up. That should be easy to do as I am mostly done with the book. If you have not bothered to read my comments on his book Uglies the review is posted over at In Order to Write. This is the second book of that series and I hope to finish it and write up a review on it at In Order to Write in the next few days or early next week before the horror of my final semester in my senior year at BYU sets in. And in case you missed that, I am done with my bachelors degree in December. You can cheer for me, or send me Amazon.com gift cards, your choice.

Regardless, we (in this case, Erin and I) are excited that codename: CAMPER is almost here. This should prove to be interesting. I’ve heard tales of people who don’t sleep the first months of a newborn’s life, and even though that is not an option (for me) I am interested in seeing how our lives get to play out with the newborn added. How we divvy work. And whether or not Erin is serious about finding some means of attaching codename: CAMPER to my chest whilst I read and write to better help him read and understand… things.

Still, fun things are a happening. The summer (at least non-school portions of it) are almost over (as is the actual summer, though that is like the day before or after or on the day codename: CAMPER is due) and the fall is about to begin. Hold on tight, folks, fun is about to happen.

Oh, and one of the buildings on campus was evacuated and four firetrucks, an ambulance, and BYU Emergency Medical services were outside the building doing… stuff.

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