First day back to school after 9 days off. Nine days where I was mostly sick. Am I well? Nah, the sinus stuff is still there, lingering, after 7 days of antibiotics…the second round. Fun times. It’s OK, we have 3 weeks of school (which feels like some sort of psychotic carnival ride usually) and then another 3 weeks off. It feels survivable. Although I never did finish grading. I did a bunch, but not enough. Ah well. Looking at the calendar…sigh. It’s fine. I woke up this morning to my blood sugar randomly crashing too, so that’s always a great shaky start to the week. I’ve got food in me now and managed to shower after 10 skittles. Weird, I know, but it works. All the other things…the glucose tabs, the juice…they don’t work as well. Or as fast. I don’t have an hour to waste in the morning before school. I should take some juice to school, though, because I’m still off. Frustrating.
So our Thanksgiving on Friday went well…food was good…
Girlchild did well…
The turkey turned out good…so I’ll be eating turkey sandwiches for a while. I freeze it and this is how I survive the 3 weeks of school. I even remembered family pictures…
Kind of a miracle. Yes, Dad commented that we were doing this in case one of them were gone next year.
Damn straight old man. Damn straight.
Friday night, I spent 90 minutes finding a lot of the flesh pieces…but not all of them.
It was midnight when I stopped…Saturday night, I found the rest and ironed them all down…
It’s pieces from the 200s to the 900s, but not all of them.
Last night, I started going through the rest of the pieces that are ON the flesh…the eye, the nipples, the toenails. That kind of stuff. I didn’t finish…this is still left…
But I am in the color now! Oh there was a snake in there too…
And there are a bunch of other pieces in the 300-900 boxes that I haven’t ironed down. Actually, I think all of the 800s are? Or the 500s. Something like that. So less than half, no matter what. A LOT? But not a lot really. I did make a decision about what color to make my brain. PINK! Not my favorite color, although I use it a lot in my quilts. It will pop. That will be good.
So expect me to be ironing for days.
I made it to the ceramics studio late on Sunday for a while…worked on the leg things.
Interesting to translate from fabric to clay. It takes a long time in both, that’s for sure.
Pills, pill bottle, syringe…
Fish, dying coral, sea waves on the other side.
Some lovely fungus in my yard. I put wood logs on either side of the sprinkler so workers wouldn’t break it and now it’s all fungusy.
Pretty stuff.
I’ll be teaching the science of rainbows in January.
I will not ever teach the 10 commandments…although there are some bits of it I wish politicians would follow.
Ah well. Whatever. Gonna take some meds, make a turkey sandwich, find a juice box for school, maybe two, then head off to whatever I’m teaching today. Tonight, I have book club and then more ironing, after a bunch of staff meeting stuff. Maybe I’ll grade something. I really should. Sigh. We’re back. Short break. Totally needed it to get anywhere close to well.
Kathy Nida 