Happy Birthday Me - Yesterday

2012-9-28 Friday

8:30 am

                Happy Birthday Me. 56 to be precise. Not that that seems at all possible. How old do I sense myself internally (note that that is different from how old do I feel)? Maybe 40 seems about right….. well I certainly don’t FEEL 40, in fact this morning I feel fully 56. I won’t say older since, who knows but that when I am older I will feel far worse and then think back on what I said with despair. Unfortunately this will not be any kind of lovely celebratory birthday. I had half thought to drive in today, so that I could stop off at Atkins to pick up some lovely sweet treats. I even thought to have them outside the classroom this morning to share with students. But it is raining and miserable today, so G needed a car. I managed to pack the fair stuff from the rental house into the station wagon, and I need to pack in the rest this afternoon, so since K will be home early and G will not, she took the little car. Anyway, I also at one point thought that maybe after 4^th hour I would leave and do some sort of nice hike. But that will not be, either. I managed to bring all the respirometry stuff up to the lab yesterday, but today I must set it all up. That will be a bit of a chore. And then I must get home early enough to load the car. It will be nasty to do in the rain, but at least there is not too much. K is going to go to the cool beer store in Easthampton with a friend after work, and I suggested that maybe we go out for supper with the friend. I enjoy his company. So we will try to go to the Mission Cantina. I’ll try to see if they will take a reservation. Otherwise it is always a long wait unless you can get there really early.

                So I am writing on the bus. Only way to do it today. I had tried listening to Mill On The Floss but the reader is too quiet and the bus noises too loud. As I said I am feeling kind of crummy. I still have this bit of a cold. Shouldn’t complain, really, as it is just low-level, nothing to keep me from getting anything done. Just enough to make it hard to sleep.

                What I REALLY should be doing is writing a letter to L. I will try to do that after 4^th hour so I can get it mailed off today. Because I also have the letter Mom wrote that needs to get mailed off. Maybe I’ll even do something like go to Tailgate and get some sort of breakfast sandwich if they have them, write the letter, mail it off, and then set to getting the lab ready. Good news: the Prof was fine with the revisions I made to the lab. It is still not perfect, but I am happier with it. That was a ton of work, going through all the steps and doing them as I read and revised. I don’t know how it will be for the blood and urine labs. Well, this respirometry will last 2 weeks, with break in-between, then I think there is a conferring about independents lab, then is the blood. So that gives me some time to work that stuff out. It would also be really nice to see if we could use Vernier for the EKG stuff. Look into that before I do anything with revising the heart labs. Ok. Bus is nearly there.

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