I need to hit the grocery, too. I'm gonna go to the nicer one (An Albertson's) about a half hour to the south, but maybe also go a few more places as well, since I'm out and I get today off (We get Good Friday, despite being a "state" school)
It's supposed to rain like stink tomorrow so I need to run my errands today.
I also need some time to decompress; it's been a wild week (a problematic person involved with the church I belong to and I deal with a little of the fallout; a student reporting sexual abuse to me that I had to report up the chain since I'm a mandated reporter; finding out someone we thought we were going to hire turned us down) and I'm TIRED. This has also been the worst allergy season I can remember.
I dunno. I'm not sure I'd enjoy an escape room (I am an Anxious person and I hate being timed on stuff - like, those "100 simple problems timed math tests" they made us do in third and fifth grades were torture).
I think however I could enjoy a rage room - where you pay money, they give your a hardhat and safety goggles and a sledgehammer, and let you smash up crummy cheap old dishes from the Goodwill, or some old non-working tv that someone brought in. There is supposed to be one in Sherman but not having anyone to go with me, I've never gone, it seems like something it would be weird to go to alone.
And anyway, it's the full-tilt-boogie part of the semester so when I'm not in class, or grading, or planning summer research, I'm trying to sleep so the next day I can teach, or grade, or plan summer research....
I get to thinking "I need to get a cat" (because I am Exceptionally Alone and some evenings, the Horrors come for me) but then I think about them getting into all the stuff I have (I have a lot of stuff) and that either I have to get rid of like 3/4 of my stuff, or else they'd wreck so many thngs/get themselves trapped somewhere behind a storage box in a closet and I might have to try to rescue them.
and then a colleague brings in the absolutely adorable little orangeboy emotional support cat she has and I get to hang out with him. And he makes me feel better emotionally but I pay for it in allergies. So maybe no cat for me :(
but the little cat really is adorable, and for an orange and white boy he is surprisingly well behaved.
My plans this weekend are to get out of town, it's been an exceptionally long week, culminating with the Zoom meeting from (heck) about some new software coming in - scheduled for 1pm on a Friday
Normally in a week I can go home 2 days (Th/F) for lunch because I don't have an afternoon lab, this week, because of Meetings, I have had to eat a Sad Desk Lunch every day, so I feel like I deserve a treat.
Also, hopefully, Michaael's Framing has the painting (which I did myself) that I took in over a month ago done. They never called to say it was. They told me it would be done in 2 weeks. So I'm just going to go there; calling them never gets me a call back (big box stores, death of customer service). I am also going to the yarn shop despite not really needing anything (but fearing that tariffs will cut off the supply or render unaffordable any yarn from Europe, which is most of the nice yarn these days). And to Albertson's. I hadn't shopped at the Albertson's in that town for a literal decade because it had been kind of a dump, but about a month ago I happened in there and they had renovated. and it's REALLY nice now, nicer than any other grocery store I have access to (so: about as nice as a bottom-of-the-mid-range grocery for people in a more populous area) and I want to think about what I will need in the near future as "quick foods" and I also want to stock up on nonperishables - again, because inflation and such
uuuugggggh yeah that reminds me I have some of the online I-9s or whatever to print out and then I gotta drag the stuff to the CPA I used (he's cheaper than a service, and he cleared up a giant F- up an untrained Jackson Hewitt person did some years back, without me having to pay too much of a penalty)
This coming week is my birthday week; I probably won't do much THIS weekend but I am taking next Thursday (after class) off (we are allowed to take our birthday off) and am going out to lunch and to the used book store and the yarn shop
I do have to get and cook that "Mexican style" pot roast I do; potluck at church on Sunday.
oh yeah, some of y'all get Monday off, don't you? I'll have to put an alert in my phone that I have to put the trash out on Wednesday instead.
This weekend is Grading Hell (papers due) so I don't know what else will happen. I'm also mildly injured, sustained an age-related muscle cramp (shoulder) washing my hair last night and all I really want to do is lie on a heating pad....I can't, though, so I have drunk more water and thrown some magnesium at it and hope I can keep going without too much pain
Recovering from what was most likely a viral-=caused sinus infection. Though I count it as a win that it's not what I thought it was at first: a tooth under a crown failing, which would necessitate a root canal.
Gonna try to rest up but I also have to set up my Monday's lab tomorrow, because Mondays are full-tilt boogie sort of days
supposed to be a bit warmer here this weekend. I'll take it, though it would be nice for it during the week 'cos having to put on my giant heavy wool coat and then drive across campus and then walk a ways to go to my classroom-in-exile is getting old. (Yes, I'm still salty about this. No construction has yet started in my building, after they chivvied us out before Christmas and kept yelling at us to move and store any supplies or equipment we might need)
I don't know what I'm doing this weekend. Right now I'm dealing with a sinus thing (pain, congestion, and periodic sneezing) that's either mountain cedar pollen (yes, even though it's cold) or perhaps mold in one of the horrible buildings I have to teach in now
Yesterday I thought I had a tooth "going" but then I realized it was all the teeth on that side that hurt, and that the pain came on fairly suddenly. So at least I don't have to go and get prodded by the dentist but it still kind of sucks.
Fortunately, I think it's only Biology people using that room, and they all seem to agree with me on the desk arrangement; they are still in rows today after a student helped me make BETTER rows on Wednesday.
Actually, ironically, the stairs DO seem to be making my knee stronger, or at least more tolerant of going up and down stairs, though after two hours of stalking back and forth in front of the class (I have to walk to be able to think), it's not REAL happy to go down a flight of stairs. So far I haven't had to deal with wet stairs but I'm apprehensive in case we get snow or heavy rain; the stairs are some kind of weird composite concrete that looks like polished stone and I bet they can be slippery
though at least this afternoon when I came back to my office there was a "Construction being carried out by XYZ contractors" sign up now, so I hope that means work starts soon
Weekend plans are sticking close to home because (a) the polar vortex is going to make it cold and possibly icy and (b) I'm just worn out from the first week of classes. More so than normal because my building is (supposed to be: no workers have shown up yet) under renovation and we can't use any of the classrooms, so we are exiled to different buildings on campus - so I am using unfamiliar rooms with unfamiliar tech, in departments that are more or less welcoming to a bunch of STEM weirdos showing up and asking about things like "can we change the tables from "seminar arrangement" to "rows"?
Also it's a lot more flights of stairs* than I am used to, and yes, my knee still gripes me. I tell myself all the stairs will make the muscles stronger and I suspect that's true, but some days it hurts to go down the stairs after class to get back to my car. I'm going on one year since the injury - the cartilage damage will always be there unless I do surgery BUT I've had enough people tell me to persist with the PT because that may be enough, and it seems to be most days
(* Yes there are elevators but they're very old and shaky and the department chair of one of the departments in one of the building has openly said he does not "trust" the elevator, so I continue to take the stairs, since I remember getting stuck in an elevator in the library when I was in college....)
Stuck at home for now because of Snowmageddon II - we got maybe 6" of snow yesterday and today, which is enough to shut everything down. (We do not have a snowplow brigade, most the city does is throw a little sand on the intersections and wish us good luck, so if I don't need (life-or-death matter) to go out, I don't.
I got back into town on Wednesday, after getting literally the only Texas Eagle running this week, and making my way through a pre-winter-storm-panic Kroger run to get groceries after having been gone nearly 3 weeks.
So yesterday I put away the Christmas decorations and dealt with the accumulated mail; today I cleaned the house up a bit and did laundry and baked a meatloaf.
I can hear guys in their big pickup trucks trying to navigate the piled up/rutted snow in the street and it doesn't sound good. It's supposed to get down to the teens tonight so I guess I stay home tomorrow as well. I have the kitchen sink (poorly insulated north wall of the house) on a slow drip just as a precaution.
It's warm enough in here and I have food and I have clean sheets on my bed, so I guess that's really all I need.
Well, I feel like I deserve my 3 weeks off after teaching four different classes, serving on two job search committees, moving ALL the lab equipment for my classes next semester because renovations, and preparing to deal with being exiled to other campus buildings, including one where they apparently don’t really want us, and dealing with some upheaval at church.
Things can be someone else’s problem for a little while
I am at my mom’s house so for once I get to do what I want.
Which, right now, is baking Christmas cookies. I have the dough for “roll outs” chilling, and also dough for a peppermint shortbread, and shortly I’ll make date bars.
Yes, it’s just her and me, but we give to a number of friends and neighbors….
I'm mostly giving food gifts this year. Some of the people I buy for are Old and say they don't "need" anything but people do need to eat, and nice/luxury food items (considering preferences and dietary restrictions of course) seem to always be appreciated.
I used Stonewall Kitchen for some of their gift baskets, and I sent some of the Seabear pouches to my mom - which also have the benefit of being shelf stable, so if she gets snowed in for a few days, she'll have an easy source of protein
I did buy a fancy turtleneck with a "horses running through the desert" print for my horse-mad niece.
But yeah, as my family and circle shrinks, there are fewer gifts to look for. And I won't lie, it makes me sad, I love picking out gifts for people. (And most charity type groups understandably prefer money to spend as they need it/to buy what they want to give their recipients)
I heard something this morning about there being an ongoing fraud investigation in UnitedHealth and I wonder if someone else was afraid this guy was gonna flip to save his own skin, and so, had him silenced.
I mean, my initial thought "it's someone whose spouse was denied lifesaving care by the insurance agency" but they'd have to know how to hire a hitman, this doesn't some like some random guy with a grievance doing the shooting.
Anyway, the streets of our cities being filled with DIY judge/jury/executioners is not a great development, because not every shooter will have such surgical precision and even innocent bystanders will die, and I may wind up being a hermit even before the next pandemic hits.
And once again I realize how I live in the Back of Beyond, I've never even HEARD of Toom before this, let alone seeing it anywhere for sale.
Today is a trip out because I need to be out. It's been a brutal 10 days and not even because we're back in the "chaos" portion of the news cycle, but because I've been absolutely crushed with work. I also have to try to find a specific item which I may or may not find for my niece's Christmas present. But I'm also going out shopping for ME because I need to be out of the house and away from work
Agh! feel better man. Broken ribs suck. I haven't had one but at Christmas 2016, my mom slipped on ice and broke a rib. I wound up having to do everything while I was there (lucky I was, my dad was still alive but was somewhat disabled so he couldn't do much)
sadly, she still has pain from it - but she also has osteoporosis so that could be part of it
I remember the 1976 one fairly well - and happily. Yes, as I remember it it was fairly bipartisan. I have a photo of the Brownie troop I was in marching in the Memorial Day parade that year carrying small flags. That was even back when a few WWI veterans were still around and in good enough health to walk in the parade.
depending on how much egregious stuff happens I may simply sit the 250th out. Like the whole Lee Greenwood song thing, that song makes me want to walk out of whatever space in which it's being played. Yes I am probably now one of those detestable tweed-coated professors even if it's too warm where I live to wear tweed more than a few weeks out of the year
I didn't hand out candy this year. Last year I sat around for three hours listening for knocks on the door (I don't have a doorbell) and I got one family of three kids. So this year, considering I've put in a number of 10 1/2 hour workdays in the past few weeks (teaching four classes,, serving on two hiring committees, trying to do research), I was just too tired to feel like maybe being at people's beck and call in an evening. I didn't see any kids out on the street, either - the "safe alternatives" (because apparently we don't trust our neighbors any more, but do trust businesspeople) drew them away to trunk-or-treats or the downtown thing.
At any rate.
It's going to be a working weekend - I am still grading at nearly 4 pm, so I'm not doing the research task I have that may take 2-2 1/2 hours. And I'm filling in (Yes, the pulpit) at church on Sunday, which I rashly agreed to a few weeks ago.
I'm just.....really tired.
I do also need to grocery shop, want to be sure to have as much fresh food on hand as I can manage
I voted early Thursday. Didn't really have time, but figured I wouldn't really have time today, or Saturday, or on Election day, and figured the lines would be worse on Tuesday anyway
this weekend is apparently Recover From Shingles Shot 2 weekend. (Today is my "mid fall break day," a sop given since we don't really get any of the Federal holidays, and to help balance with spring break in spring semester.) So I got the shot late in the day yesterday.
Got up this morning and first was like "well,, maybe I'd be OK to go in and catch up on grading" but then I was like "oh hey I need to sit down for ten minutes before I think about getting dressed.' And now I have chills, which, yeah, our nights get cold now and I don't set the furnace very high, but...yeah.
hoping there's a good old movie on TCM or something.
Huh. I got Pfizer and my main side effect was a sore arm.
Well, I was also very crabby and sad last night too but that could have been work stuff doing it to me. A little tired today but I managed to go out and do the necessary shopping and some "fun" shopping.
in a couple weeks, it'll be flu shot time, and after that, shingles #2 (Which I have been warned about and will take before I have a long weekend off)
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On “Weekend Plans Post: Fell For It Again”
I need to hit the grocery, too. I'm gonna go to the nicer one (An Albertson's) about a half hour to the south, but maybe also go a few more places as well, since I'm out and I get today off (We get Good Friday, despite being a "state" school)
It's supposed to rain like stink tomorrow so I need to run my errands today.
I also need some time to decompress; it's been a wild week (a problematic person involved with the church I belong to and I deal with a little of the fallout; a student reporting sexual abuse to me that I had to report up the chain since I'm a mandated reporter; finding out someone we thought we were going to hire turned us down) and I'm TIRED. This has also been the worst allergy season I can remember.
On “Weekend Plans Post: The Escape Room”
I dunno. I'm not sure I'd enjoy an escape room (I am an Anxious person and I hate being timed on stuff - like, those "100 simple problems timed math tests" they made us do in third and fifth grades were torture).
I think however I could enjoy a rage room - where you pay money, they give your a hardhat and safety goggles and a sledgehammer, and let you smash up crummy cheap old dishes from the Goodwill, or some old non-working tv that someone brought in. There is supposed to be one in Sherman but not having anyone to go with me, I've never gone, it seems like something it would be weird to go to alone.
And anyway, it's the full-tilt-boogie part of the semester so when I'm not in class, or grading, or planning summer research, I'm trying to sleep so the next day I can teach, or grade, or plan summer research....
On “Weekend Plans Post: Pantherine Vandals”
I get to thinking "I need to get a cat" (because I am Exceptionally Alone and some evenings, the Horrors come for me) but then I think about them getting into all the stuff I have (I have a lot of stuff) and that either I have to get rid of like 3/4 of my stuff, or else they'd wreck so many thngs/get themselves trapped somewhere behind a storage box in a closet and I might have to try to rescue them.
and then a colleague brings in the absolutely adorable little orangeboy emotional support cat she has and I get to hang out with him. And he makes me feel better emotionally but I pay for it in allergies. So maybe no cat for me :(
but the little cat really is adorable, and for an orange and white boy he is surprisingly well behaved.
My plans this weekend are to get out of town, it's been an exceptionally long week, culminating with the Zoom meeting from (heck) about some new software coming in - scheduled for 1pm on a Friday
Normally in a week I can go home 2 days (Th/F) for lunch because I don't have an afternoon lab, this week, because of Meetings, I have had to eat a Sad Desk Lunch every day, so I feel like I deserve a treat.
Also, hopefully, Michaael's Framing has the painting (which I did myself) that I took in over a month ago done. They never called to say it was. They told me it would be done in 2 weeks. So I'm just going to go there; calling them never gets me a call back (big box stores, death of customer service). I am also going to the yarn shop despite not really needing anything (but fearing that tariffs will cut off the supply or render unaffordable any yarn from Europe, which is most of the nice yarn these days). And to Albertson's. I hadn't shopped at the Albertson's in that town for a literal decade because it had been kind of a dump, but about a month ago I happened in there and they had renovated. and it's REALLY nice now, nicer than any other grocery store I have access to (so: about as nice as a bottom-of-the-mid-range grocery for people in a more populous area) and I want to think about what I will need in the near future as "quick foods" and I also want to stock up on nonperishables - again, because inflation and such
yes that includes tp
On “Weekend Plans Post: Death and Taxes”
uuuugggggh yeah that reminds me I have some of the online I-9s or whatever to print out and then I gotta drag the stuff to the CPA I used (he's cheaper than a service, and he cleared up a giant F- up an untrained Jackson Hewitt person did some years back, without me having to pay too much of a penalty)
This coming week is my birthday week; I probably won't do much THIS weekend but I am taking next Thursday (after class) off (we are allowed to take our birthday off) and am going out to lunch and to the used book store and the yarn shop
I do have to get and cook that "Mexican style" pot roast I do; potluck at church on Sunday.
On “Weekend Plans Post: The Tootsie Roll Pop Indian”
oh yeah, some of y'all get Monday off, don't you? I'll have to put an alert in my phone that I have to put the trash out on Wednesday instead.
This weekend is Grading Hell (papers due) so I don't know what else will happen. I'm also mildly injured, sustained an age-related muscle cramp (shoulder) washing my hair last night and all I really want to do is lie on a heating pad....I can't, though, so I have drunk more water and thrown some magnesium at it and hope I can keep going without too much pain
On “Weekend Plans Post: Time for Spaghetti Sauce Again”
Recovering from what was most likely a viral-=caused sinus infection. Though I count it as a win that it's not what I thought it was at first: a tooth under a crown failing, which would necessitate a root canal.
Gonna try to rest up but I also have to set up my Monday's lab tomorrow, because Mondays are full-tilt boogie sort of days
On “Weekend Plans Post: Was Last Year This Cold?”
supposed to be a bit warmer here this weekend. I'll take it, though it would be nice for it during the week 'cos having to put on my giant heavy wool coat and then drive across campus and then walk a ways to go to my classroom-in-exile is getting old. (Yes, I'm still salty about this. No construction has yet started in my building, after they chivvied us out before Christmas and kept yelling at us to move and store any supplies or equipment we might need)
I don't know what I'm doing this weekend. Right now I'm dealing with a sinus thing (pain, congestion, and periodic sneezing) that's either mountain cedar pollen (yes, even though it's cold) or perhaps mold in one of the horrible buildings I have to teach in now
Yesterday I thought I had a tooth "going" but then I realized it was all the teeth on that side that hurt, and that the pain came on fairly suddenly. So at least I don't have to go and get prodded by the dentist but it still kind of sucks.
On “Weekend Plans Post: One Single Good Song in 2024”
Fortunately, I think it's only Biology people using that room, and they all seem to agree with me on the desk arrangement; they are still in rows today after a student helped me make BETTER rows on Wednesday.
Actually, ironically, the stairs DO seem to be making my knee stronger, or at least more tolerant of going up and down stairs, though after two hours of stalking back and forth in front of the class (I have to walk to be able to think), it's not REAL happy to go down a flight of stairs. So far I haven't had to deal with wet stairs but I'm apprehensive in case we get snow or heavy rain; the stairs are some kind of weird composite concrete that looks like polished stone and I bet they can be slippery
though at least this afternoon when I came back to my office there was a "Construction being carried out by XYZ contractors" sign up now, so I hope that means work starts soon
"
Weekend plans are sticking close to home because (a) the polar vortex is going to make it cold and possibly icy and (b) I'm just worn out from the first week of classes. More so than normal because my building is (supposed to be: no workers have shown up yet) under renovation and we can't use any of the classrooms, so we are exiled to different buildings on campus - so I am using unfamiliar rooms with unfamiliar tech, in departments that are more or less welcoming to a bunch of STEM weirdos showing up and asking about things like "can we change the tables from "seminar arrangement" to "rows"?
Also it's a lot more flights of stairs* than I am used to, and yes, my knee still gripes me. I tell myself all the stairs will make the muscles stronger and I suspect that's true, but some days it hurts to go down the stairs after class to get back to my car. I'm going on one year since the injury - the cartilage damage will always be there unless I do surgery BUT I've had enough people tell me to persist with the PT because that may be enough, and it seems to be most days
(* Yes there are elevators but they're very old and shaky and the department chair of one of the departments in one of the building has openly said he does not "trust" the elevator, so I continue to take the stairs, since I remember getting stuck in an elevator in the library when I was in college....)
On “Weekend Plans Post: The Swing of Things”
Stuck at home for now because of Snowmageddon II - we got maybe 6" of snow yesterday and today, which is enough to shut everything down. (We do not have a snowplow brigade, most the city does is throw a little sand on the intersections and wish us good luck, so if I don't need (life-or-death matter) to go out, I don't.
I got back into town on Wednesday, after getting literally the only Texas Eagle running this week, and making my way through a pre-winter-storm-panic Kroger run to get groceries after having been gone nearly 3 weeks.
So yesterday I put away the Christmas decorations and dealt with the accumulated mail; today I cleaned the house up a bit and did laundry and baked a meatloaf.
I can hear guys in their big pickup trucks trying to navigate the piled up/rutted snow in the street and it doesn't sound good. It's supposed to get down to the teens tonight so I guess I stay home tomorrow as well. I have the kitchen sink (poorly insulated north wall of the house) on a slow drip just as a precaution.
It's warm enough in here and I have food and I have clean sheets on my bed, so I guess that's really all I need.
On “Weekend Plans Post: The Ghost Town”
Well, I feel like I deserve my 3 weeks off after teaching four different classes, serving on two job search committees, moving ALL the lab equipment for my classes next semester because renovations, and preparing to deal with being exiled to other campus buildings, including one where they apparently don’t really want us, and dealing with some upheaval at church.
Things can be someone else’s problem for a little while
On “A Note from Em”
Good to see you
I think a lot of us have lost our inspiration of late. I hope yours returns soon.
On “Weekend Plans Post: The Ghost Town”
I am at my mom’s house so for once I get to do what I want.
Which, right now, is baking Christmas cookies. I have the dough for “roll outs” chilling, and also dough for a peppermint shortbread, and shortly I’ll make date bars.
Yes, it’s just her and me, but we give to a number of friends and neighbors….
On “Weekend Plans Post: Back Into the Swing of Things”
Saturday is graduation.
Today I have three Zoom interviews of job candidates to replace someone who is retiring
at least I got the moving all the lab stuff done
Also today I am trying to total up final grades.
I hope to grab a LITTLE time to relax after graduation, this week has been a real stinker.
On “The Fourteenth Annual Mindless Diversions Unsolicited Shopping Guide”
I'm mostly giving food gifts this year. Some of the people I buy for are Old and say they don't "need" anything but people do need to eat, and nice/luxury food items (considering preferences and dietary restrictions of course) seem to always be appreciated.
I used Stonewall Kitchen for some of their gift baskets, and I sent some of the Seabear pouches to my mom - which also have the benefit of being shelf stable, so if she gets snowed in for a few days, she'll have an easy source of protein
I did buy a fancy turtleneck with a "horses running through the desert" print for my horse-mad niece.
But yeah, as my family and circle shrinks, there are fewer gifts to look for. And I won't lie, it makes me sad, I love picking out gifts for people. (And most charity type groups understandably prefer money to spend as they need it/to buy what they want to give their recipients)
On “Weekend Plans Post: Recovery and Honeydews”
what I want is to rest up and recover from the semester, maybe do a little "fun" shopping (I need stocking stuffers for my mom).
what I will be doing: grading and maybe moving some of the glassware I need to move before we lose access to the classroom part of the building
I hate everything and everyone right now and I wish to go live on Mt. Crumpet and steal other people's Christmases
On “From the New York Post: UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot outside Hilton hotel in Midtown in targeted attack: cops”
I heard something this morning about there being an ongoing fraud investigation in UnitedHealth and I wonder if someone else was afraid this guy was gonna flip to save his own skin, and so, had him silenced.
I mean, my initial thought "it's someone whose spouse was denied lifesaving care by the insurance agency" but they'd have to know how to hire a hitman, this doesn't some like some random guy with a grievance doing the shooting.
Anyway, the streets of our cities being filled with DIY judge/jury/executioners is not a great development, because not every shooter will have such surgical precision and even innocent bystanders will die, and I may wind up being a hermit even before the next pandemic hits.
On “Weekend Plans Post: Garlic (Specifically Toom)”
And once again I realize how I live in the Back of Beyond, I've never even HEARD of Toom before this, let alone seeing it anywhere for sale.
Today is a trip out because I need to be out. It's been a brutal 10 days and not even because we're back in the "chaos" portion of the news cycle, but because I've been absolutely crushed with work. I also have to try to find a specific item which I may or may not find for my niece's Christmas present. But I'm also going out shopping for ME because I need to be out of the house and away from work
"
Agh! feel better man. Broken ribs suck. I haven't had one but at Christmas 2016, my mom slipped on ice and broke a rib. I wound up having to do everything while I was there (lucky I was, my dad was still alive but was somewhat disabled so he couldn't do much)
sadly, she still has pain from it - but she also has osteoporosis so that could be part of it
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yes but I am also an ECOLOGIST and I teach that the EPA and its environmental regulations are Good, Actually.
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I remember the 1976 one fairly well - and happily. Yes, as I remember it it was fairly bipartisan. I have a photo of the Brownie troop I was in marching in the Memorial Day parade that year carrying small flags. That was even back when a few WWI veterans were still around and in good enough health to walk in the parade.
depending on how much egregious stuff happens I may simply sit the 250th out. Like the whole Lee Greenwood song thing, that song makes me want to walk out of whatever space in which it's being played. Yes I am probably now one of those detestable tweed-coated professors even if it's too warm where I live to wear tweed more than a few weeks out of the year
On “Weekend Plans Post: We’re Getting It Back”
I didn't hand out candy this year. Last year I sat around for three hours listening for knocks on the door (I don't have a doorbell) and I got one family of three kids. So this year, considering I've put in a number of 10 1/2 hour workdays in the past few weeks (teaching four classes,, serving on two hiring committees, trying to do research), I was just too tired to feel like maybe being at people's beck and call in an evening. I didn't see any kids out on the street, either - the "safe alternatives" (because apparently we don't trust our neighbors any more, but do trust businesspeople) drew them away to trunk-or-treats or the downtown thing.
At any rate.
It's going to be a working weekend - I am still grading at nearly 4 pm, so I'm not doing the research task I have that may take 2-2 1/2 hours. And I'm filling in (Yes, the pulpit) at church on Sunday, which I rashly agreed to a few weeks ago.
I'm just.....really tired.
I do also need to grocery shop, want to be sure to have as much fresh food on hand as I can manage
I voted early Thursday. Didn't really have time, but figured I wouldn't really have time today, or Saturday, or on Election day, and figured the lines would be worse on Tuesday anyway
On “Weekend Plans Post: Thinkin’ ’bout Numbers”
this weekend is apparently Recover From Shingles Shot 2 weekend. (Today is my "mid fall break day," a sop given since we don't really get any of the Federal holidays, and to help balance with spring break in spring semester.) So I got the shot late in the day yesterday.
Got up this morning and first was like "well,, maybe I'd be OK to go in and catch up on grading" but then I was like "oh hey I need to sit down for ten minutes before I think about getting dressed.' And now I have chills, which, yeah, our nights get cold now and I don't set the furnace very high, but...yeah.
hoping there's a good old movie on TCM or something.
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The Asterisk Wing.
On “Weekend Plans Post: The Return to the Office”
Huh. I got Pfizer and my main side effect was a sore arm.
Well, I was also very crabby and sad last night too but that could have been work stuff doing it to me. A little tired today but I managed to go out and do the necessary shopping and some "fun" shopping.
in a couple weeks, it'll be flu shot time, and after that, shingles #2 (Which I have been warned about and will take before I have a long weekend off)
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