And Monday evening

 * I got the first sock of the "John-Boy" colorway finished, and just began the second one. Maybe pictures tomorrow; I'm tired tonight.

* Also, in the name of "knit what you have" (someone on twitter started that), I dug out some old Filatura di Crosa Sempre (which is a color shifting/striping yarn) and started yet another multidirectional diagonal scarf. I've made about eighteen of these over the years (I think the pattern came out in 2003) and gave away a lot as gifts (but kept a couple for myself). I'm not sure what to do about this one, whether to keep it or give it; I'll decide when it's done. 

I should just dig a bit more through my many (!) boxes of yarn and plan future projects. 

* Called the place again today. (I got a ride to church and home yesterday - it was threatening storms. And the departmental secretary drove me to and from work today, with a promise that she'd do it tomorrow). At first they said "we're still trying to figure it out" and late in the day today the guy called again and said "our shop foreman is working on it, he's having to take some of the suspension apart. It's probably not an enormous problem but we want to track it down" but I admit I cringe at what the labor will be

It could even just be a stick that somehow got up in things. I'll be mad if it's a stick instead of something like a bushing or CV joint or control arm (a social-media friend who seems to know cars suggested it was that). The guy said it would "likely" be done tomorrow but I'm not holding my breath.

I have board meeting at church tomorrow, and a blood draw for routine bloodwork Thursday morning. If I don't have my car back on Wednesday I'll have to get a ride to church, and I'll just MOVE the bloodwork (and the checkup that was supposed to come a week after). 

There's no public transportation in this town - there's a "senior van" but it ONLY takes people to appointments and people who've used it have commented it's not fully reliable (so even IF I were old enough to use it, I'd not want to for a 9 am fasting blood draw; by 9 am I am approaching being hangry)

I just hope it gets fixed soon. I guess you expect this with a slightly older car. (Though it's also possible, given the terrible state of the roads in this area and that I've hit a few potholes recently, I could have messed something up - I try to miss them but sometimes you can't, depending on traffic.)

* I guess I shouldn't feel too bad about my summer class. Today, before class (two of the three students had a meeting with their advisor and were a couple minutes late) I was talking with the guy who is doing this class to transfer to one of the large flagship universities (he's working down here this summer so it's more convenient for him, and the class was available). And he commented he was talking about the class with his advisor because the big final project I have them hand in is a research proposal, and I told them if they were starting that process with their own research, to just use their research project for it. And he said "My advisor was impressed by what a high level of stuff you covered; there are topics in here we don't see until the third or fourth year stats class (this is roughly equivalent to second year stats). So maybe I'm not doing so badly after all. (And if he talks up the class at his school, and we get more people wanting to take it in summers and transfer - well, I've already got a lot of it prepped now, and if I had a bigger class in the future, I'd get paid more - if I could get ten students, which is unlikely but not impossible, I'd get paid like $3000 for the summer and that approaches my regular semester pay for a class.)

* If I get my car back I think Friday I will take a little while and go to the little new-ish used book store and the gourmet shop in town, and I might even splurge - since hopefully bloodwork would be done - and get a pizza from Roma's for dinner.