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I love it when my students call me "sir." It gives me a feeling of power, like I can do whatever I want with them, like I own their future...

Ooooh, it's probably not healthy that I went there, is it?

Anyway, one of my students asked me what I did this weekend and after I thought about it I said, "basically, nothing." That's not true of course, but the reality is that this weekend I "came down" from the uber stress of the last two weeks. After mailing off the settlement forms for the condo a huge weight was lifted off the shoulders, after all the hassles of changing interest rates, a scare about the remodeling that the owners had done in the kitchen, and the general incompetence of my lender (I'll say this once again: do NOT use Lending Tree!). My body was wiped out after not sleeping well, and I felt myself basically shutting down.

Of course, it didn't help that, due to a blip in our schedule at school, I had to teach Saturday morning. Or that I had to spend a few hours both Saturday and Sunday working on the papers I'm presenting at a conference in San Diego next week. But we still had fun:

Friday night we went to a dance show featuring my dance coach. That was cool. It wasn't so cool when she didn't show for my lesson on Saturday, but hey, stuff happens.

And Saturday night we went to our favorite restaurant, which was planning to close in a couple weeks while they look for a new location, and which probably wouldn't be reopening until after we moved. But as it turns out they're staying in their old place until the new place is open, so no, Saturday was not our last visit there.

And Sunday we went downtown for breakfast and I had a mimosa and it wasn't good as the ones I make but hey, anytime I'm drinking before noon it's a good day, right? Right???

And of course Sunday night we were at Lisa and Sue's and we finally finished the first season of Lost (which meant we had to watch 6 episodes, including the 2-hour season finale, and it was all good). We only have a couple episodes from Season 2 on our DVR but we're geting the rest from iTunes. Because iTunes is cool.

And I got to spend lots of time with Adrian, which is always good.

But my student didn't need to know about any of that.