Thank you all.

I'm not even considering going to the funeral...at first the thought crossed my mind but the semester has started with all kinds of crazy stuff (I was on campus for 13 hours yesterday, mainly because we were trying to load some data a class needs to use) and I've kind of ratcheted down to "survival mode" where I don't take on anything extra because just maintaining at work is going to take all my strength. (And the person with the data is coming back today to do more, but she can't get here until 5 or so, so I anticipate another long day.)

Also, I can't tell if I'm getting a cold (I would not be surprised) or if it's just my allergies trying to throttle me again. I'm extremely fatigued. (Which is different from being tired. Tired you can fix by getting extra sleep. Fatigued there's not much you can do about, because it's not really a sleep-related thing).

I did bring the current "simple sock" (an old color of Trekking - 129 - that reminds me of licorice allsorts) with me. I've decided I'm going to do that, especially on days when I have long stretches of office hours...take a simple knitting project, partially close my door, and knit and either read journal articles or revise a paper while I sit. (Partly to try to curtail my bad habit of surfing the 'Net and not really working during idle times unless I have some kind of deadline-sensitive thing).

I've also re-started quilting on the "big" quilt - the one in the frame - at home. I've decided on a final deadline for this. I want it done by the time I turn 40. Which gives me six months and about a week. I should be able to do it, especially with the added incentive of time. (The only bad thing - and I think perhaps this is why I haven't worked as much on those longer-term projects - is it makes for bad blogfodder. There's really not much to show in photographs and it gets boring to say, "I finished quilting another of the sixteen-patch blocks last night." So maybe I will have to figure out other things to write about. Or post less. Or something.)