8 am
Here’s
the plan for the morning: I already started a fire. Write my page. Meditate (I
managed to last night, I NEED to manage to more often). Sort laundry, and
finish drying the last batch, then start another laundry. Since I have started
a fire, maybe I could even set the dryer up here in the living room. Empty the
dishwasher. Plan meals for the week. Do the mapleline milk order. Grade the
rest of Monday’s labs. I think I have a system now that will work. I started
last night, at the coffee shop (after going to dinner which K stormed out of
because they were so late in bringing his fried rice – I stayed and boxed it up
and paid for it) anyway I started doing them on the ‘puter. I had made up the
rubric, and I used that and typed my comments. I think it will be fine (except
that I THOUGHT I had lost the document after grading 2 reports and spending a
lot of time at it. Finally found them under a different name than I thought I
had saved them with). So I still have 6,
or 2 groups, to go. I am finding that the assignment seems lame to me. Most of
what I seem to be grading on is kind of the style of making a legend and of
describing the results. There is very little substance to what they were asked
to do. Need to work on that. Let’s see, somewhere in there I also must feed the
buns. At some point this evening I think G is going to take me out. What a nice
treat. It is for my birthday… she wrote a very nice note apologizing for
forgetting it. Well that is ok, I don’t expect a big deal from everyone on my
bday.
What I
will not do is help K with all his efforts with the dog. Mostly I just feel
really bad about it. His leg is basically useless so he just hobbles around and
lies about looking like he is in pain. K took him to the hydrotherapist and now
has all kinds of things to do: massage, little supervised walks on the lawn,
stretches. He even bought two big indoor/outdoor carpets for the living room bc
the therapist said he should be on carpet. Well, at least he found the
cheapest. Oh brother it is all too much.
I did
manage, after a good bit of difficulty, to get to the Transition Amherst thing
yesterday. Part of it was lame. But they did a pretty good thing of letting
people propose ideas and the rest of us could go around and see what they were,
have a discussion. I went to a group wanting to do something involving
bicycling. The starter of it basically has some sort of 9 hour class he runs on
bike safety so he wanted a forum to do that.
Oh crap
I need to take the dog out.
Ok. He wanted to wander out back,
but after he pooped I picked him up and brought him back in.
What else? Oh, at the bike thing I
found out that the Pedal People in Northampton run bike repair workshops every
Saturday. It is not exactly for me that I am interested, it is for G. And L for
that matter. I will suggest to G that she go over, I could even go with her if
she wants. And if L is actually here for a bit this winter, she could go, too.
I also went to a group about solar panels and found out from someone form old
350 days that they used PV2 to put panels on their house. So maybe K will look
into it. Trouble is that I have zero time and zero energy to do anything
besides work, laundry, food, dishes, bunnies. I have not had any time lately to
spin at all. I have done some knitting bc I can take that on the bus. And now,
not only does the dog want to go out again, but I need more wood for the fire.
It all sucks. The last group I went to was one on Reskilling, though I
suggested Skill Sharing as a better name. we went around with what skills we
have and what we could share. The guy before me started talking about his
skills in survival, wilderness stuff and I realized that it was the guy that
Jennifer told us about that created a sort of informal camp for kids in which
he took them out wandering in the woods where they caught squirrels and ate
them etc etc. sort of a wild guy. Sounds like maybe he is a Hampshire student,
and they have a group that does wilderness skills on Wednesdays. And he wants
to learn blacksmithing. I must somehow put him in touch with L’s old pal. So
that was a pretty nice group, I like the
leader a lot. Next Saturday there will be a Gleaning in which people will go
gather leftover food from farms around. I believe most of it will go to the
survival center. Then the next wed there is a workshop on food preservation. I
assume the same leader will be running it, and he will do things about canning,
drying, fermenting. So I will try very hard to go. Either this wed or next
there is something on MHC campus re sustainability that I feel I should try to
go to. Well, we will have to see.
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