Weekend is here

Because I have no afternoon classes or office hours today, I've decided that this afternoon is going to be CLEAN ALL THE THINGS!!! day - I'm going to go home after my last class and do that. (I actually started last night - cleaned SOME OF THE THINGS!!! - so I wouldn't have so much to do today).

It had gotten bad. (Or, what I consider bad, your mileage may vary). The biggest thing to deal with is the accumulation of clutter/stuff in a place where it's not supposed to be. That's what takes the time, the dusting and sweeping and scrubbing and all that moves fast once everything's put away.

I don't have a lot of work-work to do this weekend - a wee dot of grading, and also work on a presentation for OAS - and frankly, I think I'd rather come in early on Saturday morning and do that stuff (especially since it will be fairly quiet on Saturday morning and sometimes on Friday afternoon there are people in freak-out mode over something wanting help).

Part of the reason I hadn't gotten to the cleaning before now - even though I'd keep looking at the different rooms and going "Ugh, I really need to clean" - is that the first week or so of classes is kind of crazy, and I'd get home after a day of herding cats and making the possibly-impossible happen, and just look at it and go, "No, I put in a hard day. I want to knit instead."

And also, I think, the extreme heat we'd been having affected my energy levels and mood far more than I realized. I kind of shut down and went into as much of an aestivation mode as I could. And so, anything that was likely to make me feel warm (like moving around putting stuff away and scrubbing floors) and anything that seemed to be a lot of activity, I just wound up being kind of "Meh" about. So I'm going to take advantage of the (possibly fleeting) cooler weather and get my house cleaned up.