A Week From Today

A week from today I will be dropping Maddie off at the kennel - SADNESS - and then heading back home to pack for South Padre Island. The drive each way is about 900 miles and this will be my 6th trip. The usual trip length is 10 days so this will make about 2 months that I have lived in Port Isabel, TX - the mainland town just across the Queen Isabella Causeway to South Padre Island. Pulling into town has definitely begun to feel like coming home and my traveling companions have definitely begun to feel like family. First trip was summer 2003, then summer and Thanksgiving 2005, then summer 2006 and 2007. Yeah!!

I will be missing the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society this year. I also skipped in 1993 when I was finishing my MA and in 2000 when I was finishing my PhD. I have been every year but those since starting graduate school in 1991. That sure is a lot of Psychonomics.

1991 San Francisco
1992 St. Louis
1993 Washington DC
1994 St. Louis
1995 Los Angeles
1996 Chicago
1997 Philadelphia
1998 Dallas
1999 Los Angeles
2000 New Orleans
2001 Orlando
2002 Kansas City Missouri
2003 Vancouver British Columbia
2004 Minneapolis
2005 Toronto Ontario
2006 Houston
2007 Long Beach

Extra - too much information. Last night I was stressed and decided to take an aromatic bath and turned on the jets while in the tub and a whole bunch of black gunk shot out - probably old soap scum - but GROSS. Good thing that cleaning the tub was relaxing.

Also - when Maddie is outside and her best buddies Dakota and Jake walk by with their people - Maddie RUNS into the house and to the front door desperately hoping that their people will ring the bell and ask for an impromptu play date. Sometimes the back door is closed when Maddie tries to run into the house and then she bangs into it and it is a bit sad when a play date does not then ensuue. This happened just now.

Tonight I am meeting friends at High Desert the brewpub.