Wordy Wednesday (one day late)

I was in Chicago, visiting my new school for next year, on Tuesday and Wednesday, and so I am late with this. I have learned the hard way that the "wake up at 4, get on the road, go at full speed all day, and then go to sleep around 11" schedule that I used to pull off with little effort is no longer possible. Tuesday was much more of a "wake up at 5, drag my butt out of bed, get on a plane, work very hard at not vomiting, work very hard at not passing out, have some fabulous interactions with fabulous people, eat some food, pass out at 8:30 and wish I'd gone to sleep at 7" sort of schedule.

I still haven't completely caught up. I feel like first tri has just smacked me upside the head and I'm getting 9 weeks worth of tired all at once. I have a retreat this weekend, though, so hopefully I'll get some solid rest in then.

And without further ado, this week's check in:

How pregnant are you? 11 weeks, 1 day.

Relate this pregnancy to objects we tend to eat. Bugbear is roughly the size of a fig this week, just over 1.5" crown to rump. If you don't eat fresh figs, pull out your credit card and imagine a body that's roughly the size of the short size from crown to rump, with legs and arms curled in front.

Tell me some random stuff about the Bugbear. This week, Bugbear's kidneys start secreting urine into the amniotic fluid that surrounds him/her. It's not much now, but 25 weeks from now, s/he will be contributing about a liter of urine (that gets flushed away as the amniotic fluid replaces itself) to his/her little ecosystem. Bugbear's eyes have colored irises now, ossification centers are established in the skull and bones, and s/he is a little less alien-like, with more upright posture and a head that's not quite so disproportionately large. His/her skin is thicker and less transparent than it has been, and a vagina or penis is developing.
This week, Bugbear will start to develop an olfactory system, and grow his/her thyroid, pancreas, gall bladder, and palate, and start to develop tooth buds. Busy little thing!
 
Tell me how you feel physically. Tired. Very, very tired. No vomit (knock wood), no nausea, no dizziness. It's enough to make me wonder whether something has gone wrong, but from all accounts, this is also the point in pregnancy where many women begin to feel human again, so I'm hoping that's just what I'm experiencing.
 
What are you craving?  A nap. Maybe a loaded baked potato. Perhaps a smore, or a salt lick. Nothing particular, really.
 
Are you crazy emotional? I haven't had any crying jags or yelling sprees. I'm craving some time by myself, but that's normal for me. It makes me wonder how I'll handle being unable to get away from Bugbear once s/he starts moving and kicking me, but for now I'm just going to enjoy stealing the sunny spot from Yoda and laying on the floor.

Tell me how you feel otherwise. Very happy that I've taught my last college classes (for a good long while at least!). I still have grading and paperwork to wrap up, but I so look forward to this major shift in my life.