Misleading

The sidebar poll about my plans for the weekend was perhaps a bit misleading, in that I myself had no firm plan for the weekend, and thus no firm idea of what was first on the plan. I had lofty thoughts about going home from work Friday and knitting while I caught up on some tv, but it didn't turn out that way. I did catch up on some tv (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), but I didn't knit while I watched.

I turned in fairly early Friday (11ish?) and virtuously went into the office for a while on Saturday am. I made up for it by napping in the afternoon. Anyway, I did manage to sleep, take out the trash, watch a little tv, run the dishwasher, and do some Seminary reading, though not any Seminary lesson-planning.

Perhaps the next weekend-plans-poll should be designed to let you tell me what should be first on my list.

Something's Wrong

I know my 50+ readers will laugh at me, but I'm starting to feel old. Reasons and examples:

I was wide awake by 4:04 am this morning and decided to get up and come to the office, with the vague idea of cleaning my desk. On a Saturday.

My baby brother will be 30 years old in a few short months.

Gray hair.

I don't remember what it's like to be 16.

A Change

As life and blogging both enter a period of limited variety and activity, I decided to take down the Currently Enjoying and Library Item Count sidebars. Neither item has changed in weeks.

I'm still listening to Nineteen Minutes in the car when I think about pulling it out, and Rough Stone Rolling is still sitting on the floor by the side of my bed. And while the library item count fluctuates from time to time, most of the items are work-related books sitting on the floor of my office because I'm not ready to admit I'll never read them and should return them to the stacks.

I don't eat much of interest anymore either, other than your garden variety junkfood, so there's no sense in reviving the Currently Eating sidebar.

I'm open to suggestions, but for now, what you see is what you get.

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Here for the Duration, or, Woe is Me

Monday I'm teaching three instruction classes between 9am and 12:45, and then I am on the desk from 6 to 9pm. (We won't discuss that fact that it's 6:40 in the middle of my 3-10pm Sunday night shift and I have nothing planned for tomorrow's seminary lesson, but I thought I'd would mention it in the interest of disclosure.)

I had planned to take a "split-day" Monday and go home between 12:45 and 5:45. After last night's trip to Costco, however, I think I'll try spending my split-day in the office. That way, I save the hour of driving back and forth, save electricity by not running the A/C at home, and if I plan carefully, I will have access to adequate food and drink. Because let's face it, if I go home, what will I do? The plan would be to work on seminary and eat and maybe nap for a bit, but the reality is that I would nap and maybe eat and probably not work on seminary at all.

At the office, however, I can work on my seminary lesson just as well as at home, and thanks to Costco, I can even nap in my office in relative comfort. Hey, if it worked for George, why can't it work for me?