I didn’t get this update out yesterday, because of a migraine. Since migraines are awful, let’s start with the bad:
- Migraine, surrounded by crazy tension headache days, including today.
- The hail on Wednesday scared poor Snowball.
- Fighting constipation for the third month in a row. 🙁
The Meh:
- I started seeing a new acupuncturist, which is good, but I had weird hip spasms later, which is bad, but may be unrelated. The guy’s name is John Frink. Pretty sure I’m going to call him “professor” on accident at some point.
- I put a great seasoning on some lamb, but the cut wasn’t great. Nice seasoning on some pork chops a different night, but needed to take them out two minutes earlier (both in the air fryer).
- I put the hammock back up, although it’s still a little too cold for it.
- I had to say goodbye to my courses, which is always bittersweet. There are usually one or two students whom I’m glad I don’t have to deal with anymore, but there are often more students whom I’ll genuinely miss.
The Good:
- My college roommate’s audio play was available for a listen!
- Another former student got into the grad program of her choice.
- Gilbert Gottfried made me laugh way too hard while doing an impression of Bob Dylan as Elmur Fudd, having chased Bugs Bunny off a cliff.
- I was able to see the Cesar nominated shorts via the Sacramento French Film Festival.
- I made a good Green Curry with chicken.
- I attended a pre-conference focused on Atwood.
- I got five new-to-me books for $10 at the friends of the library sale.
- I’ve decided to stop having one side of the bed be where the books accumulate. After decades of sleeping on the side of a queen mattress, I’ve moved to the middle. The cats like having more space on both sides of me.
- It’s the end of the quarter, and many students have thanked me–for designing the course so that they couldn’t do the work without doing the readings. They told me they skip the readings in their other courses, and were at first upset that they couldn’t do that in mine, but now realize that they did learn a lot from the readings, the exercises that accompanied them, and my copious comments.
- My union was able to force the UC system into providing us with Covid protections!
- As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, I finally got out of medical and consumer debt (I’ve been paying $1028 a month to do so, for many, many years)!!!
- And just this morning, I got a beautiful painting, from a wonderful friend.
