A different day

 Yeah, I just needed some time to get used to that I'd have to change the plans I had made. 

I mean, in the long run it matters less than getting the right person for the position. But I am heartily tired of Zoom interviews of people. 

Anyway, I realized, looking at a map, that Farmersville is not a VERY long detour on the way to Mineola, and if I was ready to leave early (like: before the shop opens) from here on Wednesday, I could get down there and have an hour or two to go to the yarn shop AND get lunch and then detour back onto the road to Mineola, and get to the train station in time. And that way, it costs less gas in the long run. And I still get my yarn shop trip. So maybe I do that. 

I got all my exams given, and three of them graded. (Well, except for one or two for the "extra time accommodation" folks, and maybe I'll get those back tomorrow). I do have to write my third syllabus yet; maybe I do that tomorrow. And move the lab equipment I moved LAST spring back into the soils lab. 

My evening things are done. Tonight was Board Meeting, and these days, with money troubles and not a permanent minister, there's always that fear going in of "is this the month we have to decide to start the shut down process?" and I admit it would break my heart to go through that (especially since I drive by the church regularly, and would hate to see it empty and unused, or taken over by some other group, or, worst of all, torn down (it's an old building and admittedly it has problems)

But not this month. We're good at least through February and it sounds like it will go on beyond that; there's plans to fix a broken part in the heating system in a way that you wouldn't do if you were nearing a shut down. So, I don't know. We've hung on for 22 years since the congregational split but we don't ever seem to grow any more. Which is sad, because it's a very nice group of people, very welcoming, and it fills a niche some of the more....conservative...congregations do not. 

So there's that relief, and also the promise that maybe tomorrow night I'll be done with schoolwork and can concentrate on cleaning up my office and moving equipment around on Friday. Saturday is graduation; Sunday is church. Monday I turn in grades and do last minute stuff over at school; Tuesday pack - and if I can be as ready as possible before Monday morning, I could leave in time to get down to Yarn and You shortly after they open at 10, and then have some time to shop and also, as I said, get a nicer lunch than I might here. 

So, yeah, "adapt, improvise, overcome" or something like that.

Also today I got a gift from a friend - two handturned wood bowls, ones her husband made. One is the ideal size to use to hold a ball of yarn when I knit so it doesn't skate all over the floor. And another friend sent me isopod stickers and a pink glittery enamel pin of what looks like a horseshoe crab. And the secretary at church made gifts - book covers - for all the women in CWF (we use a study book in there). So I have received a few nice gifts.

(And I HAVE to make time to get cards out soon, before I leave town).

And the replacement gift I ordered for my mom apparently came. I HAD ordered her four pounds of Anasazi beans from Adobe Milling, and I never, ever heard back from them (their website said they'd e-mail with the actual shipping cost if it was going to be an odd sized package and wouldn't work in a flat rate box) and I was afraid they'd just gone out of business and had a zombie website up. And so my replacement order was from Mount Hope Wholesale, which has similar products.

well, it apparently arrived at her place today.

so she's going to get EIGHT pounds of beans as part of her gift. Oh well.