Grading and Fair Prep

7:30 am

                Lovely Tuesday except that as seems to be the case all too often I really will have to spend a good part of the day grading the blood reports for Thursday. I can do some of it on wed when I go in, too. I finished the Monday group’s except for those inevitable few late ones, so there are still 3 of them to grade. Blah. What I really want to do is absolutely nothing. Just sit. Which sounds very boring but not to me.

                Maybe at some point today I will walk into town. How lame is my life? This weekend is the Hartsbrook fair and I do need to get some things ready for it. I need to wash some scarves and hats that I have made and put labels and prices on them. I could also clean up that cute folding shelf that was in the garage at the other house and maybe use it at the fair. I still need (always need) to work on my display. I need to make it easier to put up because now it is a huge chore.

                Here’s a completely random seemingly unrelated question that I was thinking of the other day: how does one make oil from seeds – like sunflower oil. Not so much how do “they” do it with their big machines and what-not, but how did people do it back in the day? Did they do it back in the day? Well obviously people made olive oil. I guess here in the colonies people used butter or fat from animals. Is it possible to make something like sunflower seed oil at home? Something to consider. Maybe today I will start some carrots fermenting the way I go the sauerkraut started. I think it is about ready to eat. And at some point today I must cook the rabbit that is brining in the fridge. Maybe I will cook it slowly in the oven. And I suppose I could read more of Under the Volcano which is getting slightly better. Only two of us had started it. This month is Yeats. Not much excuse for not having time to read one poem.

                Here’s something funny – I was writing the other morning in the kitchen and it was the weekend so K was home and I think he was waiting for me to finish so we could do something and he said “You write so much, you should publish it.” Ha. He has no idea of the garbage that I am writing, but it is funny that he thinks that. Very much like what he would say about my knitting, and look where that got me. As if something is not worth doing unless it brings in material gain. Or as if, why waste your time with something that has no productive value. But then, this weekend he is going to MD to help with hurricane relief. But that is different bc that is being of service, which of course I do see. It also means that I am left here to deal with the dog. Oh brother. And I have the fair all day Saturday so the dog will have to deal with himself. Poor dog.

                I also ought to finish the boucle today so I can finish the hat I am knitting from it. And I must finish it in time to wash it. And I have another hat I just started yesterday (well, I started it at book club Sunday). It is angora with huge needles so will be very loose and floppy. We’ll see if it is at all appealing. I just might turn it into a kind of small cowl instead.

                And the other thing I ought to do is my stretches bc it has been so long. I did manage to get in to run yesterday, though it was a short one. Trouble is that the first bus does not arrive until 7:20 which only makes time for a half hour run before lecture at 8:30. Maybe I can do that again tomorrow.

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