Tuesday evening things

 * I added a few more rounds this evening to the ongoing Moon Moth sweater. It feels like I knit more slowly now, even when I devote time to it (I never have more than about an hour and a half or two in the evenings, though). I really want to get to the colorwork part; that will feel like progress

* I finished reading "Death of an Author" (ECR Lorac) last night, even if it meant I stayed up later than I intended. It was quite good for these "golden era" mystery novels; but Lorac (which is a pseudonym for Edith Caroline Rivett) is one of the better writers of these; I've read several of hers. In this one she....perhaps twits some of her critics a bit, both with the "no, a woman couldn't write this" bit (when it was thought the young woman secretary was *actually* the mystery writer in the novel) and also "oh yes, many authors have multiple pen names, they use one for mysteries, another for romances, and yet another for belles-lettres" (Lorac herself wrote in several genres and used different pseudonyms).

It was a well plotted out story and I didn't QUITE guess what was up with it until the very end, though the pieces slowly did fall into place (=Lorac "played fair" by the old rules of mystery-writing)

*I admit I feel a little....maybe, bad? that I read so much of these rather than more "serious" or "literary" books, and I do get that they're more an entertainment than anything. I did start (re-start, I stalled on it a while back) "Braiding Sweetgrass" which is essays by a woman who is both an ecologist and Native American (a member of the Potawatomi tribe). I do want to read more scholarly things.

* I am on Day 2 of doing about 30 minutes of reading at the end of the day before I can go home. I may not do it tomorrow; I'd either have to go BACK to my office after class on central campus all day, or bring the book with me (another thing to carry) and also find a quiet place to sit and read. I think every other day of the week I can do it; I end up in my office either because of office hours or because two of the three labs I teach are in the building.

* Had my first "real" nonmajors lab today. I'll see how they did when the TA gets them graded but they  seemed to do....pretty well? And they were certainly friendly to me in class. My memories of that class are that people were very resentful and resistant to being there because it was a "required" class (and there were several years where the department chair pressed the administration to downweight the scores on that class' evaluations because of the resentment factor). But maybe I got lucky with this class, or students have changed. 

* Tomorrow is my longest day, then Thursday is my easiest (I'm done at noon; last week I used that day to do a necessary run to Sherman for Target and Ulta, and also a side trip to the yarn shop). This week I'll probably do grocery shopping in town, but probably on Thursday afternoon. (I'm still trying to figure out what day the wal mart is best stocked,, for the things I have to get there - Saturday morning the shelves are pretty bare)