domestic stuff

I'm hedging my bets and applying for more jobs. I'm reasonably certain I've got the Harvard job, but if it turns out I don't, I need to have somewhere else to go on to.

It's warm out; how did that happen? Not that I'm complaining, because I have places to go today. It's just that I've been cold for the last three days, despite SmartWool socks and shearling slippers and heavy sweatshirts.

I have a small bottle of olive oil which I've decided I don't like the flavor of. How can I dispose of it without making a mess everywhere, and without pouring it down the sink, which I don't think the sink would like? My current idea is to leave it in the freezer until trash day. There's enough room in the bottle so that I don't think expansion would be a problem, if oil expands when it freezes.

Today's list:

- Vacuum
- Find another couple of jobs to apply for
- Grocery store
- Clean bathroom
- Clean kitchen

Timber!

This morning when I took out the trash, I noticed that somebody had put traffic cones up parallel to traffic, across the street. I was hoping it didn't mean anything like serious road deconstruction. Turns out that what it meant was serious tree deconstruction. The other side of the street is uphill from this side, and the house diagonally up the street was having a tree severely pruned. The branches were falling mostly on the lawn, but partly in the street. Enough so that when a large branch came down, the guy standing between the cones stopped traffic in both directions. They seem to be done now, having taken most of the branches off the tree.

If I didn't have Messiah rehearsal tonight, I'd go out for a very long ramble. I seem to want to tire myself out, but doing that before rehearsal is a bad idea, and doing it after rehearsal is an even worse idea because I don't get home until 10:00ish anyway.

I do know why I want to tire myself out; it's because I'm letting some family-related stuff bother me, and it shouldn't.