Janie Jones has officially lost her marbles.
I had so much to do last week that I can’t even tell you how I survived. Besides, that makes for a boring blog post I’m sure. What you will probably find more interesting is reading about the signs of my marble losing.
So first, I was trying to cook a pork chop on my single burner hot plate. It’s temperature control is dodgy. Well, it wasn’t getting hot, wasn’t getting hot, wasn’t getting hot, then suddenly it was starting to smoke. So I pulled it off and set it on the wood cutting board, as I needed to cool it down. I’ve used a wood cutting board as a trivet before, but apparently this time the hot plate meant business, super heating the pan to I’m-done-messing-around-and-only-sort-of-getting-hot-and-am-now-hot-damn-hot, and the pan scorched the wood. Smelled like a wood burning shop in the basement for the next two days.
Twice I almost poured orange juice in my tea instead of milk, catching myself just in the nick of time.
I thought I forgot to hand in my physics homework, and ran all the way back to the drop box only to realize I had indeed turned it in already.
On several occasions I was completely incapable of forming a simple coherent answer to straight forward questions. It was almost as if they were speaking pig latin.
And I forgot completely to bring my teaching manual to the extra session of Cell Biology Lab I had to supervise. Way to look like you belong in charge, Janie.
I will spare you any more details as they become less becoming as I recall them. Suffice to say, I survived somehow.
I actually had a couple bright spots. I got a 96% on my seminar on Lyme disease vaccine research, and an 84% on my last physics test. An 84%! Me. I couldn’t believe it.
Surviving the week and getting good news meant I wanted to celebrate. I wanted to take some time off, kick back and chill. But that wasn’t going to happen. I had to work the tour guide gig yesterday. Afterward, though, Leif came to town after one of his shows. He only stayed for a little while, as he had to get back to the dogginses, who had been left at the farm all day and both of us were totally exhausted, but it was so nice to have a meal together and sit for a half hour and do nothing but drink tea, and talk and be together. Almost as if I had a life.
College can be really lonely, you know? You see people and talk to people all day, but you don’t really get that human contact factor. And spending too much time in society with out having any society is tough. It wears on your nerves. I’m sure the solitude is messing with my marbles, too.
Anyway.
It’s a beautiful 60 degrees today. I want to go walk down by the lake with Leif and the pupkisses. But they are out at the farm, and I have a microbiology paper to write. So, the grueling week isn’t quite over yet. It’s back to the ol’ homework grind.
And as for WordPress, I still haven’t figured out the new system, but I did discover by accident that sometimes you can back-door your way into the classic format. Which is enabling me to type this post in my comfort zone of normalcy. We’ll see how long this lasts….
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