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Mar. 18th, 2013 03:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesIreland was nice, although slightly chilly. I'm very glad the coat I brought with me is windproof, because that came in handy at least two or three times. (Blowing snow in Dublin? Who ordered THAT? The Dubliners certainly didn't.) Further Ireland stuff later.
I got back to Boston in the middle of last Friday afternoon and spent the rest of Friday letting Lily in particular figure out that it was, in fact, me. Eventually both Hairy Beasts decided it was, and then decided that since it was, they could eat again. I know that they don't eat all the food I leave for them if I go away for a weekend, and now I know they eat about half of what's given to them if I go away for longer and have somebody else feed them every day. On Saturday they ate about twice as much as they usually do in a day. Things seem to have evened out again now, though.
In Galway last Wednesday I came down with a cold, and brought it back to the US with me. I've got the cough that sounds like what Mom had over Christmas, but this one seems to want to be a shorter cold than that one was. (Thank goodness.) On Saturday I went to the drugstore, the bank and Trader Joe's, and those three errands knocked me on my ass so much that I had almost no energy for the rest of the day. Discretion being the better part of valor, I put off the rest of the errands I wanted to get done yesterday, and did nothing more energetic than laundry. Today I feel almost human, but we'll see how much energy I've got after being at work all day.
I got myself dug out from under my emails by lunchtime, but today seems to be "ask a random question" day. I have no idea why anybody thinks I would know where to get HMS academic regalia, or why I would know what the difference in pay scale is between a postdoc and an Instructor at one of our affiliated institutions. (And yes, both of those questions came directly to me.) Ah well, onward and upward, I guess. Literally upward, because I started at the oldest email and proceeded up the list from there.
It appears we're in for another mess of sneaux tomorrow. I can't say I wish it were April, because we've been known to get sneaux in April, but I wish winter would decide it's got an urgent appointment Elsewhere for about six or seven months, already. At least the clocks have changed so I won't always be coming home in the dark, regardless of what the rest of the weather is doing.
I got back to Boston in the middle of last Friday afternoon and spent the rest of Friday letting Lily in particular figure out that it was, in fact, me. Eventually both Hairy Beasts decided it was, and then decided that since it was, they could eat again. I know that they don't eat all the food I leave for them if I go away for a weekend, and now I know they eat about half of what's given to them if I go away for longer and have somebody else feed them every day. On Saturday they ate about twice as much as they usually do in a day. Things seem to have evened out again now, though.
In Galway last Wednesday I came down with a cold, and brought it back to the US with me. I've got the cough that sounds like what Mom had over Christmas, but this one seems to want to be a shorter cold than that one was. (Thank goodness.) On Saturday I went to the drugstore, the bank and Trader Joe's, and those three errands knocked me on my ass so much that I had almost no energy for the rest of the day. Discretion being the better part of valor, I put off the rest of the errands I wanted to get done yesterday, and did nothing more energetic than laundry. Today I feel almost human, but we'll see how much energy I've got after being at work all day.
I got myself dug out from under my emails by lunchtime, but today seems to be "ask a random question" day. I have no idea why anybody thinks I would know where to get HMS academic regalia, or why I would know what the difference in pay scale is between a postdoc and an Instructor at one of our affiliated institutions. (And yes, both of those questions came directly to me.) Ah well, onward and upward, I guess. Literally upward, because I started at the oldest email and proceeded up the list from there.
It appears we're in for another mess of sneaux tomorrow. I can't say I wish it were April, because we've been known to get sneaux in April, but I wish winter would decide it's got an urgent appointment Elsewhere for about six or seven months, already. At least the clocks have changed so I won't always be coming home in the dark, regardless of what the rest of the weather is doing.
