9:30 am
Well that
is a damn long drive, from Bar Harbor. I did manage to sleep well enough which
truly surprised me given the coffee thing (a frappichino thing from Starbucks)
that I bought at a Maine Thruway rest stop at about 7:30. The last part of the
drive really sucked because we only realized Friday night that one of the
headlights is out, so we drove a lot of the way once dark hit with the high
beams on, but once we got to Rt 2 and had oncoming traffic we had to turn them
on and off and with them off one could barely see the road. Well, L drove all
that part and I think she was fine, but I was a nervous wreck. We got back
around 11 and I pretty much went straight to bed and then got up pretty late. And
I am still exhausted. And there is a ton to do. The car needs to be unloaded,
and I MUST tackle the moth problem in the cupboards. L has lots of food she has
brought back with her and I don’t want her to just put it in the cupboards to
get all moth-y. And I need to clear out the fridge which is a disaster. And, of
course, I still need to do buns. But I really needed to come out here to the
sunroom to have a bit of quiet alone time. Not sure I’ll meditate. I already
ate breakfast; I ate while L was on the phone to Grandma asking her about
borrowing her car. I wanted to hear how all that went and it sounds like she is
fine with it, though the car needs some work and that will have to be figured
out. I’ll tell you what I’d like to do today – sit here in the sunroom spinning
and listening to my cd. Oh brother, what a lame thing is that? But two whole
days of driving, with lots of packing and helping out in between was kind of
exhausting. And it has all put me in a bad mood.
So before
I got up I was thinking about a brain-storm I had. Did I write about this
already? Well, I have had the idea of giving the MHC knitters kits to try out
and evaluate. My new idea is to have an evaluation party. Invite a bunch of
people, kind of Tupperware Party style (not that I’ve ever been to one, the
closest was the make-up [Mary-Kay???] party 20 years ago) but instead of
selling things it would be for people to evaluate my stuff. I would lay all
kinds of things from hats to scarves to skeins out, give everyone some sort of
evaluation forms, and let them go at it, checking things out and answering all
kinds of questions about what they like/don’t like. And of course I would have
refreshments and maybe even some sort of small gifty thing. Maybe not games
like a Tupperware party has (I think). It
is a thought.
Yesterday
L said that she would like to get a cheap (should say inexpensive) computer
from Craigslist like I did. So now I will need to check out the listings. That can
be quite addictive. And I need to see if I still have those questions that are
good to ask. I got them from a website and can probably find them again if I hunt
for a while. I know I saved them to the big computer, but I may have trashed
them. There was one promising computer
listed, but the seller does not speak English, so I don’t suppose asking lots
of questions would be very effective.
Well it
is late and I still need to feed the buns. This is my final week of (relative) freedom.
Next week work begins. No classes yet, but I will need to go in for meetings to
and start getting ready. I am a bit nervous I will confess about having
Juniors. They will not be as malleable as the new students I usually teach. Well,
there are often upperclass women in the intro classes, but they are new to bio
and so pretty anxious about that. This group will have been through the ringer
of Cell Bio, so they will be pretty confident.
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