A Lovely Sunday

8 am
    So is it better to have a great day not doing that much, or to work my tail off, actually get a lot accomplished and be miserable? I guess life needs to be a mix of both. I can’t even really remember what I did yesterday, just that it was very nice and peaceful. I suppose I didn’t accomplish much. I did manage to grade a good bunch of the labs I have, but they were pretty easy. I did some more knitting and that was nice. I washed the rest of the bags – wooo hoooo. And I enjoyed the sunshine and put out a bit of angora to solar dye, or at least start to. It won’t get any farther for a while since it is supposed to be cloudy most of the week. I also managed to go through a lot of emails (mostly tossing things) and caught up on the 350.org stuff. Well, not completely, I really need to write up something to send out to folks at the colleges. And I truly screwed up with the churches, but I can still try to inform them so they can put it in the bulletins for this week.
    I’m also thinking about how, I think all kinds of things during the day, but what I write here is what comes to me in the morning as I am sitting at this computer here in the living room. I wonder if it would be vastly different if I were to write at a different time (mid-morning pages, or late afternoon pages) or in a different place, like from work. I had thought that once work started I might end up doing that, but because lecture is 11-12:15, I do not have much time between that and either lab conference and lab, not like when lecture ends at 10:50 and I have over 2 hours. So I find that when I am at work I am really busy, while since lecture is late, I have a bit more time in the morning. Well, I should try to get the 9 oclock bus today which means I will soon need to get going. I need to put actual numbers on those labs, and confer about them with the prof. Oh and the tiny, runty white bunny died yesterday. I asked the prof if he might want it for any kind of dissection reason, but he said no. I think I’ll bring it in anyway and dispose of it in the bio waste freezer which is way easier than digging a hole while it is raining. It is sad but entirely not surprising, that one was looking worse and worse and I am surprised it survived this long.
    The best thing about yesterday was that I was alone most of the day. I did talk to two friends on the phone which was nice. And G was here for a while late in the day after work, and that was nice too. But I didn’t have to conform to anyone, please anyone, deal with anyone. It was lovely. And I made a wonderful casserole, finally using one of the spaghetti squashes from the CSA farm. I cooked the squash, pulled out all the “spaghetti strands,” layered them with roasted ratatouille and cottage cheese and cheddar cheese, and baked it. The squash has a lot of moisture to it, so it ended up pretty wet, but it was delicious. I’ll take it to work.
    This week in lab is kind of confusing. Because of Mt Day Tues and Thurs labs will evaluate videos of animals eating. Wed lab will do the heart/lung dissection. It will keep me on my toes. I hope the dissection will go better since I’ve done it once, I wasn’t that happy with how it went last week. The video stuff will just be what it is… I’ve never done anything like it, and I don’t know how the students will react. We’ll have to see.
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