Regrouping [work]

Today is technically part of Thanksgiving "break." At least this year I'm not teaching our scientific writing course, so I don't have a huge stack of drafts to go through.

But this fall I fell behind on grading, and NOW is the time to get caught up.

Thinking things over, I realized that I need to come into work today anyway, to water the ants and crickets. If I don't come in today, I need to come in tomorrow, and I don't really want to do that shortly after finishing the annual Thanksgiving erg half-marathon.

So here I am, and now that my desk is better organized and my office is vacuumed, time to get to work.

Wish me luck.

Not exactly an incandescent rage [housekeepery]

I never would have thought that a lightbulb would be something that could fill me with rage, but somehow, these have managed to do so:



Two of the ceiling fan/light fixtures in this house take this bulb size, and most likely the landlord purchased these as an inexpensive bulb option.

They give off a pale, gray light that makes any reasonably cheerful room look dismal and grim.

We got the set in S's office replaced over a year ago, but I hadn't really noticed that they were what was going on in our bedroom until I started spending more waking hours in there recently.

We had one more of the "warm light" chandelier bulbs kicking around, so there's at least a partial remedy in place now.

...so I guess this is now my motivation to go to the farmer's market in Troy on Saturday and also swing by the hardware store while I'm there.