Still plugging away on the croc socks. Not much other progress on the craft-front, because the past few days have been meeting-filled and research-filled. There is a paper with my name on it on its way to be peer-reviewed, and I am in the process of shaping up another for publication, and I started writing a third. I also met with the grad student whose committee I am now on, and planned out some summer research for yet another project (one shared with another faculty member).

It's been unbelievably hot and humid here. You know you are in for a bad day when it is 76, with a dewpoint of 70, at 6 in the morning.

Next week is jury duty. I'm hoping I get rejected, or told I am not needed, because there is so much I can be working on...I did call my friend the assistant DA to ask if she knew whether it was OK for me to bring knitting to the courthouse (I have no idea how tight the security is), but she's not called back.

I hope that's not because she has relatives in Moore or in south OKC where there were bad tornadoes yesterday. It's kind of sickening to see how the tornadoes followed nearly the same path as they did in 1999, when there was so much destruction and people killed. I flew into OKC in July of 1999, to come down here to look for apartments, and I remember driving down I-35 through what must have been Midwest City and just being horrified - second floors of houses and apartment complexes were totally pancaked onto the first floors.