Well, my colleague came in towards the end of class last night. He seemed cheerful and "normal," not like someone with a medical worry. And he was working one shoulder like it pained him.

So, in the absence of further information, I'm going to assume it's an ACL or rotator cuff or some such thing. Which isn't fun I'm sure, but at least his brain's not broken, so I don't need to worry about getting him a cookie pizza. (ObSpongeBob reference).

Other than that, I got nothin'. Last night was the monthly church-lady meeting and so I didn't get home until after nine.

I'm more tired on Tuesdays than I am on Mondays. And I've got a pile of work to get done in the hopes I can cut out a bit early and start the extensive house-clean before my parents arrive next week. And I have to get a filter to replace the filter in my furnace filter thing. And spray for the cockroaches "water bugs" that have decided that since it's cold outside, this is a good time to start coming indoors.

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Actually, I guess I can say one other thing I'm thankful for: I'm back into a cycle of having more amusing and diverting dreams again. Earlier this week I dreamed that I was living in this huge house with a huge entryway with a bay window and I was decorating the whole thing for Christmas. And I also dreamed about going shopping at an old dry-goods type store for craft stuff - beads and wire and things like that. But last night, that one was the oddest one.

I dreamed that part of my department and I (and a few other random people I know) had relocated to Australia or New Zealand, and had a lab, and were doing research. I don't remember all the research but a lot of it was food-sciences oriented. One thing was that one of my colleagues was studying peaches and was trying to figure out how to reduce the variability of 'goodness' in grocery store peaches (as in: how to make them more consistently good). He had these little vials of peach juice he was looking at under a microscope. I think there was something else involving apples and maple syrup. And I was involved on some DNA testing that found that one species had apparently been introgressed with DNA from another...and I was walking around wondering how the other species' DNA could have got in there (It was something like sheep turning up with gorilla DNA or something like that). It was strange but at the same time amusing - nothing ominous about it or upsetting. And it was night time when we were all working in the lab; the windows outside were all dark. And the lab was kind of rustic, with exposed beams and all, more like a barn.

I like it when I have dreams like those - that are totally strange and unrelated to everyday life. They feel kind of like an escape. All too often, I have dreams about:
a. the responsibilities I really truly have
b. people getting up in my face during class, or being disrespectful to me, or other "bad stuff"
c. having to deal with a difficult person I really have to deal with in real life.

Dreams like that make me feel like I haven't been asleep.