out of sorts

 I started the chicken for my niece this weekend. Was motoring away on the tail section and then realized I'd made a mistake, and I couldn't easily how to get back to a spot I could pick back up from, so I ripped the whole thing out and restarted.

 So this is all the further I am:

 I also need to figure out something simple and portable (A simple hat, maybe, as a potential gift) for later this week when I have to give two exams. Nothing I have going on is either simple enough or small enough to be easy to carry (the chicken takes too much attention)

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I'm trying to the coverage of That Book (you know the one, the birthday book for that guy that That Guy allegedly contributed to). I honestly can't believe how gross some men are, and I'd prefer not to know how fully gross, to keep the illusion that there are some good men still out there (even if probably every one remotely close to my age is partnered up already.)

Just everything feels upsetting and ugly right now.

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Part of it is being peopled out. Thursday was AAUW, and it was stressful as the original host was awol (I hope she's okay, but I think I'd have heard if it was something bad, I suspect the likely explanation is she forgot, and got invited to the tailgate on campus, and went, and that's why she wasn't home). So there was a lot of shuffling around (another woman was able to host on short notice). 

Then Saturday was a get-together/housewarming party at a colleague's.. It was fine, but it lasted really long - I left after three hours and I was the first one to leave (and I hope that wasn't too unsociable or awkward, but most of the people there were talking college football, which I'm not into and couldn't contribute, and I was tired, and I felt a little uncomfortable, and I didn't want to talk any more)

Tonight was CWF. It was okay at first but the meeting ran kind of long, and I was supposed to do a devotional at the end and I thought I'd picked out a really good one about the restoration of Notre Dame, but at that point everyone was distracted from having had to change plans for a meal we're serving after a choir concert and then one of the women started complaining that the day care that uses our building had blocked one of the storage closets with their stuff, and it needed to be moved so she could get things in there, and then someone else went and looked and they were both unhappy about it (but the problem is? there's nowhere else to store those). And by the time I got to reading what I had everyone was tired and distracted and I felt talked over.

I should be used to it, but.

And Wednesday is Board meeting, so that's more people. 

Maybe tomorrow will be better...