Hmmm. Pondering. Pondering.

Edited to add: DUDE, DUDE, SPSS is working again! So I can analyze my data. So I'm not bailing out of here. (I wonder if the intermittent server outages we had much of the day were tied to them getting it back up and running; I e-mailed them about the issue Friday)



So I get an e-mail from my piano teacher: she cannot do the lesson today, because of various reasons. So I'm totally free this afternoon. (Actually, free in 12 minutes, if I stuck to my "office hours done and I'm out of here" plan. But I probably won't)

I had been thinking about how I wanted to go somewhere with better produce and better groceries in general. I thought of that as a Saturday morning thing, but now with this afternoon free....I could drive over to Pottsboro and go to the Brookshire's that I haven't been to in, like, a year. Or I could go to Sherman, hit the bookstore to see if the new Simply Knits UK is in and then go to the natural-foods store (on a Tuesday! They might actually have the local organic milk this time!)

The other option would be just to go home. Maybe even do the work-out I didn't do this morning. I planned on not doing it; I was awfully sore after running around over uneven ground out in the forest yesterday afternoon, especially in the heat and humidity. I actually got a gluteal cramp yesterday evening. Yeah. Butt cramp. (Didn't Patrick Star get one of those, once?)

Then again, my body needs a little more recovery time, I think.

The other option would be to stay over here, do more research work (I wrote a SFD* introduction to the soil invert paper. Still cannot access the server for the analysis package and still have not heard back from the help desk. Le sigh. A few more days like that and I'll be HAND CALCULATING ANOVAs.) But I have the soil samples to start sorting through. (I had originally said "no" for today, as sometimes it gives me a headache, and I didn't want a headache for lesson, so....)

I'll have to think on it some. But it's powerfully tempting to think of getting new food for dinner, instead of eating up what I have left over. (Though then again: I really do need to cook up that cauliflower head).

(*SFD: (bleepy) first draft. It's a Anne Lamott concept I find enormously helpful: you just sit down and write, don't worry about it being crummy, don't spend an hour staring at the paper trying to craft "just the right" sentence, just get the ideas down before you forget them and then tinker with and add to them later on. The idea was originally for fiction writing but I also find it really useful for writing manuscripts from my research.)