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This week kicked my butt, which is unsurprising when you figure I was traveling and effectively out of commission for 3 days at the end of the week last week. I had multiple evening meetings that required sprinting home from work, plus a substantial grading task (Results sections for student papers), plus a guest lecture for a class at another nearby liberal arts college, plus Emma.

At the start of the week, I finally noticed that the Arcosanti bell wasn't making any noise. I guess when there are a bajillion of them hanging in the showroom, it's a bit much to have them all ringing, so the inside was lined with tape to silence it.

It is a very silly bell, but I'm enjoying hearing it now on windy days. It transports me back to that one magical afternoon/evening, so badly needed, and reminds me to ask myself questions about how I want to spend my life.



Weekend agenda:
-Buy a hair dryer
-Attempt to get more mineral oil off of Emma (did you know there's a whole WikiHow page dedicated to getting oil off of your cat? I guess I'm not the only person to wonder). The hair dryer will be to make sure she's dry and never too cold. Time to Dremel her claws again, too.
-Clean/organize house
-Brace myself for the Grading Hell phase of the Scientific Writing course
-Try to make progress on at least one project that involves making something

And now, back to grading and answering emails. Whee.

Thanks, brain!

Last night, instead of, you know, sleeping, my brain decided it really wanted to work on figuring out what to do with all of the leafcutter ant colonies I collected this past summer. By now, they are too big to do one of the experiments I really want to do, so I'm just kind of aimlessly growing them. They are also getting to be too big for their current containers, so I need to do something about that soon.

But my brain actually came up with some ideas! Thanks, brain.

...that's at least better than a recent dream I had: I had a dream of being in a board meeting and trying to get things done while getting interrupted by too much loud noise. Dreaming about board meetings is NOT fun!