silly little thing

 today was the first day of classes, it was kind of a cluster:

 - facilities people showed up by surprise with a scissor lift and was replacing the lights in the hallways (14' ceilings). But: scissorlifts have a super annoying backup beep, and I got to hear it all through ALL THREE of my classes. And they're not done, so I assume we get it tomorrow.

They were not here last week when there were no classes but the buildings were open, so it's annoying

- Because of a Registrar mistake, a room I am in for my intro lab is double booked. So the lab might be moved to another day (which is okay, I can do that, if the students can) OR it might be moved to a different room - meaning I have to gather all the stuff before class, move it, and then move it back afterwards. Which I don't like. I feel like in the past I've taken on extra labor (some years I taught the last lab section and everyone left their dirty glassware, sticking my TA and me with it - the TA gets paid by the hour but I'm salaried, and if the TA has burned up their hours for the week, I have to do it all). 

I'm hoping the resolution will be the easiest possible. 

Also, CWF was tonight, and I found out someone who goes to a different church, but is a mutual acquaintance of many of us, has cancer. I hope it was caught really early; I don't know details but I'm ready to be done for a while with bad news for people I know. 

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But the silly thing that makes it a bit better - something I ordered months ago (it was one of those kickstarter type things where enough people had to order for it to be made) came.

This is from an artist called Poorly Drawn Cats. I have several of the t-shirts with her designs on them, but this is a plushie:

 It's Vampurr! a vampire cat (the initial ordering period was around Halloween)

He has a little cape

 I think I ordered him on one of those days I was feeling a little sorry for myself about things. But I'm glad he finally came.

I named him Viago, after the European-dandy vampire in the movie version of What We Do In The Shadows (the character Taika Watiti played). 

 

Not pictured but he has funny little embroidered toebeans, and yes, that makes a difference.