Busy Days

7 am

                Lovely lovely Tuesday except that I must go in to work all day today. No class, so I will spend the entire day messing with the respiration stuff for lab next week. Lab yesterday went pretty well. It was fun anyway, though too rushed. It took them longer than I expected (should have expected that…) to work out and then gather data from the BIOPAC set-up. Maybe I can adjust things for the Thursday lab.

                I took all the skins (except the new ones from that recent batch) out of their baths and am drying them and they are coming out quite well,  at least a good number of them are. I think one of the big secrets is to make sure they are really thoroughly tanned. My understanding is that you cannot over tan them, so better to leave them in the bath for a good long time. There are a couple that may not be completely good. Those seem more likely to turn out stiff. There is one in particular that I might just stick back in.

                So besides that, and work being really hard as I had anticipated, what else? Friday there is a Fiber Day at Shelburne Falls farmers market. If I can get a good handle on lab stuff I think I will go over after lecture. If the weather seems decent I’ll bring a table with a sample of stuff to sell. But really the idea is to spin and hand out flyers about my class. Speaking of which I should check again to see if anyone has signed up. Nope. Nobody. Hmmm. Maybe this won’t work. Oh well. Not as if I’ll be especially sad to have one less thing to do in October. I expect the grading will start getting bad around then and then it will get way way worse when they do their independent experiments. Still, I have been putting a good bit of effort into advertising my class and it has obviously not yielded anything. Discouraging.

                What else? I need to get food, as in suppers, under control. Need to get back to writing up a meal plan for the week. I’ve been getting home so late and I am so tired. It would be best if supper were somehow automatic.  I have no idea what I’ll cook tonight. Maybe just sauté some cabbage. When G comes home and cooks up all her farm veggies they smell so yummy. It is silly, I should just follow her example and not care if K does not like having just vegetables.

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