Daughter and TG

7:30 am

                It is already 7:30 so I guess I should get a move on. The truly Big News of the day: G is coming home tonight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! Kent is picking her up at the airport around 6, she’ll get here around 7, and we’ll go straight to Panda East. Mainly she has said that she wants to go out to eat a lot. ok by me. I am just really looking forward to having her here. Hearing noises upstairs, having her coming and going, all that. I think she is hoping to spend a lot of the time working at the NBO farm. I think I’ll check the weather forecast: well it looks like it is going to be cold, rainy and windy for the first half of the week. Not much fun for working at a farm. And it will feel really cold to her, coming from NC. Well, she is young and flexible I hope….

                I guess I defacto skipped stretching this morning, since I am really hungry and so about to eat some cereal, and after that I won’t want to do stretches. And I don’t suppose I will run today as it is supposed to rain all day. Lazy bum I guess, but I have been doing well with getting to the gym at work. I think I will try to spend the day spinning the fawn angora that I started the other evening, and continuing to work on the photos. I did more last night and some came out ok, some not so good.

And another thing that is annoying/concerning me is that, though I laid all the skeins out in the sun the other day, and all smelled pretty good, now that I brought them in and laid them on the bed to choose ones to photograph I am getting a return of the mothball smell. Well, I guess it just means they need more airing out. In the sun is best, but that won’t be an option for a few days. I think the knit stuff is better, I bet some of the trouble with the skeins is that many are wound up tight and probably hold the smell longer. Maybe I will untwist them all.

                Next weekend is our family Thanksgiving, which is going to be kind of manic. What we usually do in several days will all be done in one. I already made 2 apple pies, which I left there, sometime this week we need to make a peach and a blueberry pie. Fri I need to get to Millers Falls to pick up the turkey. I guess we can do that on the way up to the farm. Then Saturday I’ll cook it, everything else will get cooked, we’ll eat, and everything will have to get packed up to leave pretty early Sunday (to get Gback for her flight).

                Somehow thinking about all that is making me feel anxious and is bringing up all the other stuff that I need to do and haven’t yet gotten to: like calling the accountant, contacting people for the fair (met with cochair on Sunday and have not yet done anything I said I would do). Here’s another anxious thing: met with the prof yesterday for lab conference and spent most of the time listening to him go on about the bad stuff coming down the pike for the college. Big bad choices needing to be made. And what will happen to lab instructors in all that I do not know. For years I’ve had to listen to K vent about how he might lose his job, I try not to obsess, but of course it leads to underlying anxiety. Now I have this additional anxiety that in fact my job may disappear. They seriously might have to cut back on staff in the bio dept. I guess several are below me on the totem pole but that’s about it. Everyone else has either been there longer, is senior in terms of what they do, or really both. Well, I will keep doing the best job I can and be as flexible as I can.

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