Better cheer today

* I got a bit more done today than I did yesterday.

* I also had PT. I am almost at the point of "graduating" (Well, the insurance will only cover 2 more sessions) but there's a lot of stuff I can do at home - and I'm going to try to. I think I'm starting to get back some of the waist definition I used to have (because of all the core exercises). And yes, that's a silly and vain reason to keep exercising but most of us have a silly and vain side, and anyway, if it keeps me exercising maybe it's not so silly.

* Also ran a few errands - bank, tag office (sort of like the DMV - I had to renew my car registration), and took a package to a friend to the post office.

*After PT I decided to go vote. We had an election today and while at first I thought "my vote won't make a difference and I'm busy" but then I decided on the way home from PT if it wasn't busy to go and vote. So I did

* And it turned out, I met a colleague from Math (he and I have served on a committee together. He had been in the same Zoom meeting with me as yesterday, and he stopped me in the parking lot and said: "Those things you said in the meeting yesterday*? I agree totally, and I can guarantee most, if not all, of the faculty there agreed with you. It's a lot to load us down with mid semester and they should have had separate training for those who teach fully online and those of us who teach in person and are using it merely as a repository to store things"

(*I had said "This is overwhelming, it's too much information, and I don't think I'll use most of this stuff because I teach face to face and I dislike grading online" (Grading on a screen gives me headaches and eyestrain) and I felt later like "oooooh maybe I shouldn't have said that, maybe I should have smiled and nodded and just gone along and now everyone's going to think I'm a picky complainer)

But anyway - I feel a bit better now. It's still too much to expect. And I really dislike that we have "homework, " I have no time to do it. One of my departmental colleagues said "don't do it, they can't do anything to us if we don't" but the fact that I was an overachiever student who always wanted to follow the rules and please the "adults," and on  some level I am STILL that person, it does me a certain degree of psychic damage to just blow off the homework - but my first duty is to my students, to teach well and to be PREPARED in this new class, so.

Maybe the "you can blow stuff off and it won't actually go in any Permanent Record" is an important lesson to me but this is a hard and uncomfortable way to learn it. 

* It's fellow-blogger Roger Green's birthday today. 

* In a minute, I'll start up again on the blanket square for the gift blanket. I'm almost half done with it so maybe I'll be able to finish it tonight. I might go ahead and make the "angel square" I said I might do if someone couldn't complete theirs - just do that one a very simple pattern (though this one is simple enough - baby cable rib). 

* And it's almost time to think about what I want to take on break. Tentative plan is to bring A Cardigan for John and do the pocket and bands and put on the buttons, and then maybe take a couple of the small projects (a pair of socks, a pair of mitts) that I can't seem to make time to finish. And maybe something new to begin, something small and simple...