Added a couple more rows (if you can call them that in crocheting) to the Lion Brand Suede simple-shawl. I was too tired (and had no time; had an evening meeting yesterday) to work on anything else.

I mowed and edged (for the first time using the Mantis) my lawn yesterday. Spend a lot of time bending down to pick up the bits that got edged away, wound up using a shovel. I'm hoping that this put a little undue stress on my right knee, because when I went to get out of bed this morning, I put my right foot on the floor, tried to put my weight on it as I slid my left leg out of bed, and my right knee just collapsed. Boom, right on the floor. At first I thought maybe my foot was asleep or something but that wasn't it. The knee still feels a bit weakish and shaky. I'm hoping it's just overuse and not some kind of bizarre autoimmune disorder that is eating my joints or my nerves or something...(You can guess what I taught in Gen. Bio. yesterday...)

And finally: Do you think it sounds odd, when a busy person is faced with YET ONE MORE crisis, but it's a crisis that won't have to be dealt with for several months, for them to say, "I'll worry about that after x" where x is some urgent thing that is important but will be over shortly? Last night, at the meeting, it turns out someone who has done something for us for a long time is stepping down. As president of the group, it falls to me to find a replacement. However, I do not need to find one before August. So when the issue came up, I said "I'll worry about that after final exams are over." One of the other women (who is retired, who is married and has a husband who does a lot for her, and who has a cleaning lady and a gardener) made some kind of funny crack about my not being able to juggle things, or my putting things off. I was irritated but said nothing - this is really someone who has NO concept of going it 100% alone, of being the one who has to do ALL the cooking/cleaning/breadwinning/shopping/gardenwork/driving/planning/babying-other-people-who-have-emotional-issues/self-nuture. I let it slide, she's made cracks before that prove to me she doesn't understand what it means to be busy.

And you know - I think I have a spiritual connection with the Little Red Hen. Driving home after the meeting, I kept returning to the thought that "It will be easier to do that thing myself rather than try to find a person with sufficient computer skills and then beg them to do it." That's the way I ALWAYS am, and that's probably why I'm so busy I have to say things like "I'll worry about it after exam week."

(It also occurs to me that that's a coping strategy - putting off things that aren't urgenturgenturgent until such a time as I have time to think about them - I learned from my father. He does it. So that's perhaps partly why I was so offended at the "Oh, you poor thing, you THINK you have too much to do" comment)

And, oy, tomorrow is the Youth Yard Sale, which means I have to get up as early on a Saturday as I do during the week, and my whole day will be spent making change, and negotiating with people who want a $1 men's suit for 50 cents, and trying to communicate with the Hispanic immigrants who do not yet speak English (And I do not speak Spanish). A day filled with responsibility, which is just what I really don't want right now.