Ready to relax

 I worked hard today so I can have tomorrow free. (if I'm okay to do so, see below).

I taught two of my classes. The third one, all that remains is an article-discussion, which was scheduled for today, but when I asked them if they wanted to put it off until Monday, they all did (so I hope their writeups are BETTER for that). During that time and the other hour before my second class, I wrote the other in-class exam I will need for next week, and sent the one I had written earlier off to the printer and the copy to Student Support for the person with an extra time accommodation. 

I also collected article critiques in a DIFFERENT class (my smallest class; there are 11 people still attending; I got nine critiques). My plan was to go home and read them (and the articles that they were based on - I assigned four people could choose from) but then I got to thinking - well, maybe this is a good chance to get a flu vaccine (this is the last shot I need for the fall). So I checked at the walgreens, and yes, they had appointments. Their shot giver guy, at least the one I've had before, is pretty good, and if you have needle-fear, it helps to have someone you can trust not to give a painful shot). So I made an appointment for 2:30, ran home and ate lunch (stopping at the grocery first for another half gallon of milk; I was out).

I re-read the discussion article for the Monday class (I had assigned it in a past year so just needed to refresh, and I had a list of guiding questions I had written up in the past).

Then I ran out to Walgreens.

In between all this, the eye clinic sent me a text - my new sunglasses were in. Okay, fine, maybe I get them after the vaccine.

And then I realized I had left one of the student article critiques in my office. Okay, fine, I go back after THAT and either get it or just grade them all in my office.

Out to get the vaccine. The process is normally pretty seamless; you check in by text and sit in the waiting area and the shot guy calls you when it's your time. Except, today, they may have been a bit understaffed (I heard one of the techs apologize to someone there was a bit of a wait). And maybe the shot-giver guy is also the pharmacist, the one with authority. Because there was a woman there fussing about how the prescription called in for her was Not Right. That she was supposed to get three weeks or whatever of her heart medicine and she was being given seven days. And she kept haranguing the shot guy, and he calmly said he needed to call her doctor. Well, while he was doing that, SHE tried calling (and may have tied up the line?). She went back and fussed more at him. And I was sitting there. It was not a good setting to try to read student papers in, so I couldn't work on them. Fifteen minutes past my appointment passed, then twenty. I wondered at what point I should quietly tell the tech I'd try to come back next week (except next week I travel), but decided to stay and wait.

The shot was a half-hour late. I was polite to the guy and didn't say anything; wasn't his fault anyway.

hopefully I don't get aches or chills tomorrow so I can't go; my arm is a little sore but then it always is with flu shots 

So then to the eye doctor's. The optical shop was SLAMMED and I waited like 15 minutes. Again, if they wanted to EFFICIENT, I think, they could have had one of the two opticians helping people *picking out* glasses frames and getting their prescription filled, and the other one just giving the finished glasses and checking the fit. But no, so I waited at least 15 minutes. 

But I finally got them.

At least the case will make them easy to find in my car (where I usually keep them)

Then I realized if I was going shopping, and maybe out for lunch, ESPECIALLY at small businesses where I might only spend a few dollars, it might make sense to get some cash. So I ran to the bank. (I don't have an ATM card; I did as a college student and learned fast I was not organized enough to remember to keep track of every transaction)

So I did that. 

And finally, back to campus, at 3:45 pm. On a Friday. (Remarkably, several of my colleagues were still there).

I sat down and read the papers I had skimmed earlier and made comments and put grades (I only had 8, but one more came in with an apologetic e-mail, as I was doing them)

Got those done shortly after 5, came home, washed my hair, finished piano practice, at not-the-most-nutritious dinner (a bowl of Chex and a couple servings of fruit) and just finished changing the bedsheets...

But at least tomorrow I can sleep in, and then go do what I want. I'm hoping maybe to find some small fun thing at an antique shop or maybe go to the fancy soap/candle/hand lotion store