Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Two Fer One Day


7:30 am
                It’s way too cold out in the sun room to sit and write, so I am sitting in the living room instead. No fire in the stove yet, too much bother for that, but soon…… and soon I must do my stretches, feed the buns (F the Bs) and get started on the day. I was in bed for 11 hours last night. I think my feeling kind of crummy all day yesterday was due to coming down with something. I felt like I was starting in with a cold over the weekend, then it seemed like Monday it just settled into my stomach. I did fine in lab, but even there I just felt crummy. I did manage to get to the Registry, and I picked up our share at the farm, and I came home and fed buns and had supper (of fish….) but after that I had zero energy for any cooking which is what I had been intending to do – deal with the rabbit meat and start the jerky and now I have all these share veggies. But I did none of it, instead I got into bed, read the rest of Gabriela and went to sleep. And slept til about 15 mins ago. And had lots of complicated dreams. So that is that. I feel a bit better today. I think I will not try the really early morning gym thing. Instead I’ll try to have things together enough to go after lecture.
                Today – I will do that cooking, and get things ready for the fair (twist and label skeins, try to finish the scarf that is nearly done), and grade the Thursday group papers, and see if I can revise the manual from here.  I need to install the correct program into all the computers tomorrow, but I don’t think that will make too much difference in how I explain things. Though I am not sure I can really explain it if I am not actually doing it at the same time.
                What will I do for fun? Well, the cooking part should be fun enough. I’ll have the radio or Mill on the Floss to listen to. I am not finding the switching readers in that Librivox recording to be as distracting as I had thought. I do prefer one reader all the way through, but it is also kind of fun to hear how different people do it.
                I have kind of a headache coming on, maybe more manifestation of this cold or whatever it is. Yesterday the students first heard about their independent and started brainstorming about it. I hope it turns out well. I can’t be that much help as far as things that work well as I have never done it. One student wants to do something related to her asthma and breathing, so of course we have all the respiration stuff. But I don’t know how the logistics of her using it will work. I guess it will have to be sometime when either Sarah or I can be there to open the room. I don’t think we want all that equipment and the computers in an unlocked room. That will take some figuring.
                Oh, the other biggy that I must work on today is the rental room. I did nothing at all about it over the weekend. I think his plan is to move out today, so that will help. Now the question is, will I be able to figure out how to and then manage to fix the walls. It shouldn’t be too hard, though once I put the squares of sheetrock back in, I will need to caulk the joint and then really I should paint. I don’t know if I have a car today – looks like not. So if I need stuff to help me out, I guess I’ll have to wait until Kent gets home, or else bike which I don’t want to do with this cold thing going on. Well I will get started on it.
                The thing I find disturbing is how tired I am once I get home and deal with supper and feeding buns. By then I seem to be completely beat and unable to do anything else. It is discouraging. Maybe it is because I am having to start up so much earlier than past years. Well, I will have to try to ease off a bit in terms of obsessively getting in with K (which means leave here around 7) and coming home with K (which means leave work at 6). If I take the 7:45 bus, it gets me there in time for lecture. And I can take the bus home and get here more like 5 or 5:30 which on days that I must do supper (most days) that is better than getting home at 6:30.
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