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Oct. 7th, 2014 03:55 pmCome tomorrow I will have had six lunch meetings in the last two weeks. I'm not sure what that says about it being busy around here, but it is. I really can't afford to get any Insidious Grue until about mid-November.
We have a winner on the cooking front, I think. I actually like savory steel-cut oatmeal, and I like it better cold than warm. The first batch was 3:1 oatmeal and water, and I put salt, garlic, sage and walnuts in it. It was 7 points per serving, which is a bit much for breakfast if I'm going to have lunch meetings.
I realize that it's my coworker's first time having anything to do with a faculty development day, and that this particular one is fairly huge, but I really wish she would chill the heck out and stop asking me to beat little tiny details to death. I've been doing that for her for three weeks now and I keep having to resist the urge to say "not if it has anything to do with faculty development" every time she asks me if I've got a minute. (She's asked me three or four times if I'll be helping to clear away the food after breakfast and after lunch.) Oh well, that will all be over with in...26 hours. We'll be running late by the end, because we always do.
Last night I dragged my carcass off to a "sing for your sub" workshop, involving the four people who are taking students over from my voice teacher when she goes on maternity leave in November. The woman who's taking me over lives in the same neighborhood I do. Somehow that figures. It was a good event, but it was long for a school night and the T was not cooperating. At least I got an extra 10 minutes of walking out of it.
When I got home, I discovered that the rest of the linen I was about to get annoyed over the absence of had arrived in the mail yesterday, so I can stop remembering to get annoyed about not having it. I wasn't really all that annoyed in the first place, because it's for the project after next. I'm trying to get the current one done by Thanksgiving. The next one is going to be white embroidery on burgundy linen, and it's geometry, so it should go fairly fast and be gorgeous when finished. The one after next is going to be grayscale on black.
Speaking of things arriving, supposedly the new furnaces are arriving today and/or tomorrow. Nice day for it, though, since it decided to be warm at night again. That means it's warm in the daytime too, and I don't need the furnace. Now here's hoping that making this New and Improved doesn't screw up everything else. I've noticed that things have a way of doing that; sometimes a system that's perfectly happy being held together with string and chewing gum doesn't know what to do with a shiny new something-or-other and difficulties ensue.
We have a winner on the cooking front, I think. I actually like savory steel-cut oatmeal, and I like it better cold than warm. The first batch was 3:1 oatmeal and water, and I put salt, garlic, sage and walnuts in it. It was 7 points per serving, which is a bit much for breakfast if I'm going to have lunch meetings.
I realize that it's my coworker's first time having anything to do with a faculty development day, and that this particular one is fairly huge, but I really wish she would chill the heck out and stop asking me to beat little tiny details to death. I've been doing that for her for three weeks now and I keep having to resist the urge to say "not if it has anything to do with faculty development" every time she asks me if I've got a minute. (She's asked me three or four times if I'll be helping to clear away the food after breakfast and after lunch.) Oh well, that will all be over with in...26 hours. We'll be running late by the end, because we always do.
Last night I dragged my carcass off to a "sing for your sub" workshop, involving the four people who are taking students over from my voice teacher when she goes on maternity leave in November. The woman who's taking me over lives in the same neighborhood I do. Somehow that figures. It was a good event, but it was long for a school night and the T was not cooperating. At least I got an extra 10 minutes of walking out of it.
When I got home, I discovered that the rest of the linen I was about to get annoyed over the absence of had arrived in the mail yesterday, so I can stop remembering to get annoyed about not having it. I wasn't really all that annoyed in the first place, because it's for the project after next. I'm trying to get the current one done by Thanksgiving. The next one is going to be white embroidery on burgundy linen, and it's geometry, so it should go fairly fast and be gorgeous when finished. The one after next is going to be grayscale on black.
Speaking of things arriving, supposedly the new furnaces are arriving today and/or tomorrow. Nice day for it, though, since it decided to be warm at night again. That means it's warm in the daytime too, and I don't need the furnace. Now here's hoping that making this New and Improved doesn't screw up everything else. I've noticed that things have a way of doing that; sometimes a system that's perfectly happy being held together with string and chewing gum doesn't know what to do with a shiny new something-or-other and difficulties ensue.
