Jan 14 2009
Way Past My Bedtime
So - long day today … up at 6, taught from 8 - 11, then we drove to Peterborough.
Got there too early, so sat around for an hour reading cuz I hadn’t taken my laptop - bad plan, that!
Went to class - and during class, came up with a potential idea for my major essay in that course (Public Texts) … will have to run it by the prof sometime in the near future.
Done class - had another hour and a half to kill, which we did by stopping on a short stretch of downtown Peterborough where there just happens to be 3 used book shops within steps of each other, which I wrote about already, here.
Then we had a very nice dinner at a very nice restaurant that costs considerably more than I would typically consider reasonable - with people from school, and paid for by the MA program. It was very nice - except for the fact that about an hour afterwards I was SOOOOOOOOOOOO sick.
Had to leave the evening lecture not once but twice. Is expensive food poisoning any more fun than fast food food poisoning? Nope! Not in the least bit… and especially not when the lecture is followed by a 2.5 hour drive during which almost everything was/is closed!!! Fortunately I survived until the McDonalds that is a little more than halfway home.
Got home and starting to feel better…but not much… and the coffee I had at dinner (which was pretty darn vile iffen y’ask me - first time I have added sugar to coffee in about 7 years!) had kicked in and I could not sleep. Thought I’d write up the assignment I need to give to my students tomorrow (for their next essay) but got stymied by my stOOpid computer.
The one I use when I am at home is just a tad broken. Had it in the car with me when I had the accident - the monitor did not survive the collision. So I use it with my desktop monitor - except that tonight I knocked the plug out and when I plugged it back in I could NOT get it to switch back for well over an hour of fussing, swearing, and threatening it with the hammer.
Eventually did manage it, but now it is after 2:30 in the morning and I still haven’t touched the assignment thing and I am (obviously) still not in bed. My bad.
My Wednesday class was moved from 2 p.m. to 10 a.m. which means that I can’t possibly get there in time - I have an appointment at the fracture clinic at 9:30 a.m. We’ll head to Peterborough right after, anyway …go hang out at the motel until it’s time to go to my 6 p.m. lecture and then do my seminars at 7 & 8. We’re talking about racism in Huck Finn this week, mostly. Which reminds me, in addition to writing up the assignment sheet, I still need to go onto the class discussion boards and see who’s posted. *sigh*
Suppose I should get to that stuff so that I can get to bed at some point tonight.
Sure hope they take this icky cast off - but given the amount my wrist is still hurting, I’m not counting on it. If I DO still need a cast though, I’m hoping to talk them into giving me a new (glow in the dark) one. AND a few minutes to scrub off all the dead skin and apply copious amounts of lotion!
Only doing one night at the motel this week, so not too worried about needing to pack and all that fun stuff… but I DO want to get up early enough to have a bath or a shower here where I can do it without help instead of having to deal with it there later. Which must mean it’s time I got my actual work done and then went to bed!
It looks like I am not the only one working like a donkey lol. I hope you get some good rest!
You work so hard.
I’m still a bigger nerd than you are though :P. And I’m Uber cool besides.
Still, Steph will get a kick out of the fact you’re in the same boat she is.
Oh, and I’m way sorry about the food poisoning. That bites the wax tadpole.
By the way, I have Ross’ neutrinos up on me blog.