Yesterday was a challenging day. It concluded with my being thwarted at not one, but two, pieces of essential business I must conduct this week.

When I got home, tired and frustrated, I saw Fred and Ginger sitting there on the sofa where I had left them. And on an impulse, I picked them up and hugged them to my chest.

And you know, I felt better. As much as I am supposedly a responsible grown-up, as much as I was feeling every one of my 37 years when I walked in the door, it did make me feel better.

I worked some more on the bottom band for the Samus sweater last night. I'm about midway through repeat 7. (7 of 9! 7 of 9 repeats! hahahahah. Not that I'm so much a Star Trek fan, most of what I know about the show was absorbed osmotically when I was around my brother or my father who watched the various incarnations of it).

I've also been working on the Jaywalker socks, although not really talking about it. It's a pretty clever pattern. I may do a second set to use up some of the faux Fair Isle Regia I have in stash. I have some in the colorway they named "Hamburg" - bright pastels with the typical grey fair isle bands.

I received one of the late papers. With the claim that she had a doctor's appointment and couldn't come to class - but the paper was e-mailed. There was also no prior request to submit the paper late. Could she not have e-mailed it on Monday? I'm going to have to take the "late points" off of it that I said I would, even though I know I'm going to get challenged on it.

I also hurt my back somehow this morning - I think I twisted badly as a result of trying to catch books falling off a shelf while I was looking for something. So I'm going to be cranky and painful today. (I hurt my back a few years ago trying to flip a mattress - well, it SAYS on the tag you're supposed to turn them periodically, and what's a girl to do when she lives alone? - and now, those muscles are weak and I periodically re-injure them.)

It's really too bad that other people wouldn't understand about the hugging Fred and Ginger thing, because if I had something like that in my office right now, I'd be hugging it.