Written at Work

9-24 Monday 11 am

                Well here’s a new idea – write my MPs at work, sitting in my office. Not sure how well it will work. I am using my adorable little laptop, but cannot seem to connect to the internet, but I expect I will be able to figure that out eventually. I really ought to go outside to write as it is quite nice out. And this office is kind of tomb-like. Ok, I will try that!

                Well now I am in fact outside sitting in an Adirondack chair. What I need to do soon is review the graded lab assignments that I will be returning in lab today, put the grades on them and enter them in my grade sheet. And print out the notes that I wrote up to return with them. Then I need to get back to work on the manual for next week. I will once more go through the gas exchange part to make sure the instructions make sense. MAYBE  I can wing it so I don’t have to come in tomorrow…… that would be lovely. I have the Apple Harvest fair this Saturday, for which I will need to load up the car and it would be nice to not stay too late at work Friday so I can do that.

                How was the rest of my weekend after my miserable Friday? Well, I do feel like I got a reasonable number of things done. Saturday I cannot really remember, except that I wound and washed a few skeins, and Kent and I actually hiked up Bare Mt which was nice. It is really such a quick up and back, we should definitely do it more often. I did feel like I spent all weekend washing dishes. It gets pretty tedious. Sunday I finished the grading, plucked 3 rabbits and processed 2 more. These 2 were older, which I always find kind of hard. I had really had high hopes for Dusty, but her coat was short, and the truth was that the color was not anything very exciting once spun up. And Dolores, besides being pretty mean, also had a kind of short and coarse coat. So now I am at 11 adults and the 5 babies of whom I will keep one white, maybe a male. I may also keep a white female, I will see how their coats look/feel as they get older. I will not keep the chocolate or black, but I will probably bring them to the fair, and if I can get to it I will make a new poster to put around for them. I should also figure out how to post on the Angora Rabbits list and on Ravelry to let people know that they are available.

                So that was a good bit of work yesterday, though I did nothing about the renter’s room, nor about fixing the roofs of those 2 hutches. Our renter is working on packing up, so really the truth is that it will be easier to work on it once at least most of his stuff is out. But that will not be until Tuesday and that means it all must be done Sunday since I will have no time Saturday. This afternoon I must zoom after lab to the Registry of Motor Vehicles to get my license renewed. I had hoped to do it on-line, but I guess you can only do that so many times before they decide they need a new photo. I hope I can get there in time. K said he’d make supper, which will mean more fish. Yuck. I have rabbit to cook, but it is good,  because I can start it and let it stew all day tomorrow to get it really tender. And I will freeze some for a little while, then cut it thin, marinate it and put it in the oven for jerky. L said (I got a letter on Fri!!!!!!) that the jerky was really good. So I’ll make more that she can take to Utah.

                I decided last night that I would get up really early this morning so I could go to the gym before lecture. In the middle of the night I decided I would not do that, since I went to bed kind of late (dealing with boning rabbit). So I turned off my cell phone alarm. Then I woke up at 6 (instead of 5:45) anyway and realized that I was not going to get back to sleep. So I got up and did get in early enough (because I had the car). So I did go to the gym, but it turned out to be not so great an idea. I felt nauseous and crummy and only ended up using the stationary bike and not being very rigorous with it. So I guess working out after lecture is probably better, as long as I am ready enough for lab after on Monday. Wed is ok because I have no lab. I actually am still feeling a bit sick which I suppose is part of why I wanted to sit and write Morning Pages. Well that is all fine, but I need to get back to it all. 1 ½ hours til lab. And I need to work on that manual.

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