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8 am

I have decided to write this morning, mainly because I don’t seem to have whatever is needed to do all the other stuff I need to do: stretches, feed buns, laundry – hang up another load, start another load, empty dishwasher, and last and least in my list of desired activities: finish grading the drawings and get back to the lab reports. Ugg. I also have the radio on while I am writing which is a silly thing since it is very distracting…. Right now there is story about the horrors of Disney Princesses, which is of course kind of disturbing since it is the usual story about popular culture and how awful it is for young girls.

Ok, radio is off. Today I have an appointment with Dr. Spence and I hope to look into either increasing the Zoloft or trying a different antidepressant. I am hoping that will help with me feeling all the time grumpy. Maybe it will make me a more appealing friend, if my main goal of connecting with people is not to find someone I can vent to.

So I guess I’d really better get started. The day is going to be pretty filled up, with a haircut (wow, what’s it been, nearly a year???) and the doctor and lots of grading. I MUST finish those drawings, and I must get the labs done for next Monday. I will have time this weekend (unlike last) but I still have nearly half to go. Blah blah blah.

I also need to get nesting boxes into the cages of rabbits that are due next week. And I probably need to get more hay since the nesters will need good chunks of it. And I keep giving Bathsheba lots of hay to keep her busy so she doesn’t mess with her babies out of some sort of boredom.

Yesterday I managed to run again – I took a long hiatus due to the nasty cold I had. I can’t say it was fun, but it was kind of satisfying.

Ok better get to it all.

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Good Things (well some of them)

8 am

                I have decided that I am fine and that feeling down is just something that is and that is fine. Well, it helps that today is Tues and I get to stay home. Of course that means basically grading all day, but I will just have to plug away.

                The bad news is that I feel like I have another odd sore throat and hope like hell it is a remnant and not the beginnings of a new nasty sickness. It’s almost like an ache in the back of my throat.

                I lost another baby yesterday. I wonder if the trouble is that they are getting out (oh, there was one on the wire this morning, but it was fine and I put it back in the nest) and dying from the cold. I think I will put an actual nest box in there for her. Maybe using the hutch areas is not such a good idea.

                Nice stuff – well, maybe I will try to spin more dog hair today. Not that that is so nice. And I made some yummy 3-hole cake Sunday. I added half the called-for sugar which I think is fine, but it is definitely not very sweet. I think I am going to tell my co-worker tomorrow that I want to stop with the stupid Wellness thing at work. It is stupid and annoying and I don’t want to think about it anymore.

                Oh, here’s something nice: I took the T for a walk around the long block Sunday night and heard: a woodcock, at least one coyote, and a great-horned owl! Very cool.

                I am now going to meditate, and then start in on the next section’s labs, and eat breakfast. I started a fire going so that is cozy.

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Warning - total downer and probably not worth reading....

8:45 am

Well I managed to grade about 3 lab reports yesterday, how lame is that? I also walked into town and had lunch at Miss Saigon with friends! So that was pretty good, except that as usual everyone was really late so we waited around. After that I went to the Black Sheep and worked, then walked home late in the day. So at least I got in 2 decent walks. And before going in I cooked up some meat that I had thawed before leaving for Maine. I was worried that it would have spoiled, but it was fine and I cooked it up with onions and white wine and I added some canned peaches and it is delicious!

I got to thinking this morning how it sucks that I have to start my day with yucky stuff – I have to take my psillium and all those vitamin pills, then I have to feed buns, which doesn’t suck but is a chore, and then I must do my stretches which I don’t like doing. Well. And once I finish writing and meditate I have ALL THAT GRADING to do. Oh dear. And more of the same tomorrow.  I think I’d better make an appointment with Dr. Spence to ask about either upping the anti-depressants, or trying another one, because I am obviously in a bad state. Oh and while I take that psillium and pills, I check email which is also depressing because in the back of my mind I am hoping for an email from a friend. Which never comes. At least the rabbit forum I have joined is interesting.

I bred 3 more rabbits yesterday, today I will do the last 2. Should be possibly 3 litters April 4, then 3 more ~ April 14.

Monday “break” is over. Back to going into work and teaching lab. I suppose that is not so bad because it is stimulating and I generally feel much better. But I will have to continue grading every spare second. And Tuesday L comes home so I really want to be able to spend a little time with her. Although she is planning to spend time with G mostly.

I guess I had better eat breakfast. And start in on the nasty grading. Maybe I will go into town later and go over to a friend’s. They are boiling maple syrup and sitting about the yard smoozing so that might be a good break. Yesterday I went to Black Sheep and had a very sweet brownie, but now I have developed a nasty canker sore on the tip of my tongue (on top of everything!!) so I don’t know if I’ll really be able to eat any treats there.

Ok, enough of the misery already. YUCK.

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Home and Babes!

8:30 am

Just back from Maine. I am not looking forward to the day, since it will mostly involve miserable grading, as will the rest of the weekend. A friend emailed saying that she would be in town working on some writing and wondering if I would like to join her. I think I will start grading here, then walk up there for a break and to keep working there. It looks like it is going to be a lovely day, so I may even be able to sit outside some.

And now I can’t think of anything to say. It was so nice to be with L in Maine and have someone to talk to! Someone who was interested and would listen. And she has interesting things to say, too.

The good part about being back – baby bunnies! Bathsheba has a litter of 8(?). Charlotte had one baby a couple of days ago, but it was dead when G found it. And now, surprisingly, Beatrix is looking very “broody.” She is carrying hay around and has made a very nice nest in her hutch area. Monday would have been 30 days, so this is 34.

I guess I’d better get going. I did very well in Maine with meditating, so I think I’ll try to continue it. And I do need to do my stretches. I’ll do a brisk exercise walk into town later.

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Trip to Maine

8:30 am

hmmm i am writing on L's computer and i'm not so sure about this. for one thing, it does not automatically correct all my typo mess-ups and lazinesses (like not capitalizing i)

i just switched to the word processing program but it is no better!

anyway, i am in Maine and it is utterly loverly. the getting here was not so great it is a long long drive. right now i am eating oatmeal and a smoothy for breakfast, i just got back from a walk to town to buy ingredients for the marinade for the venison that we will cook tonight. L is about to go into campus and i will sit here and grade. oh joy. 

yesterday was truly loverly. we went for a nice long slog/bushwack through the woods and up a hill to a beaver pond, and then along a stream to another beaver pond. pretty much the whole way we followed the trail of an otter, it was really great. and while sitting enjoying the sun at the second pond we saw a mink! it just loped on by. very exiting!

i’m having a very hard time getting myself going with these labs that i must grade. before leaving for here i managed to get through 1 1/2 of the questions on the exam page that i must grade. that leaves 1 1/2 more to go. at least i started with the worst and the last one should be the easiest. and by the time i get back home it will probably be a welcome break from the lab reports. i am going to have to spend the complete entire weekend grading.

oh, more excellent news - baby bunnies!! they were born monday night and the only bad thing is that i am not home so G is having to deal with them. i hope everything goes well, it is pretty cold. there may be as many as 2 more litters in the next day.

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photos

Just for fun and because I needed a grading break:

goofs

our new "squirrel proof" feeder, created by clever hubbie

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Grading and a Bad Mood (sorry)

9:30 am

Well I thought I ought to get back to my routine. I won’t be able to keep it up for many reasons – this is break, but tomorrow around noon I leave for Maine and get back on Thursday night. Then once classes start again it just is too hard to write in the morning. And the exercising was going great, but then I got so damned sick with that major fever and now a bad cough that I have kind of fallen short on that, too.

Really I feel like I need to write. But now that I am sitting at the computer it is hard. As ever, I wish I had a little laptop and could sit by the fire to write. Not outside yet as it is cold and rainy today.

Swamped. Damn. I have a page of the exam, and a full set of Independent lab reports to grade. It sucks. I worked all yesterday on the exam page. Well I will amend that: I also had to finish getting the tax stuff put together to mail to the College Board IDOC and to 2 colleges. It was a royal pain, but is now finally done. Well, that part is done. Now I must “simply” amend the FAFSA and Profile. I have nearly finished the first (hardest) question on the exam. The second one will also be hard, but not quite as, and the last should be pretty smooth. I’ll bring it up to Maine and work on it there and on the bus coming home (if I can – I really hope they do not have those stupid movies). 

Today is grading, doing bunnies, then tonight I will go to bookclub even though I did not read the book. I started a different one by the same author, one the group read when I had my surgery, and I didn’t like it at all – Shadow of the wind. So maybe I’ll go late. Or go early, work at Black Sheep for a while, then go on over. Or maybe leave early. Or something. I think I will keep working on The Ambassadors  by James instead.

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