Help

I have reached a state of "barely functional". In an attempt to become more functional, I have eaten a chocolate bake sale cupcake (fundraiser for Ronald McDonald House, not the one across the hall from it raising money for social stuff). Hopefully that will help. I have to make it through half a class, but I have slides to assist me. (The other half will thankfully be used for a bonus marks quiz... less teaching now, but more marking later.) Then, after two hours of office hours, I can go home. I think I may leave the dishes until tomorrow (assuming I have enough for breakfast), and go to sleep after dinner (frozen pizza: no pots required) and watching Bones. (I won't be getting home until shortly before Bones starts, so I might as well stay awake long enough to watch it too, rather than recording it.

Hopefully my students (who have an assignment due at midnight) won't run into trouble and wonder why I'm not answering my e-mail.

Sleep: only seven and a half hours until I can sleep.

Okay, rant over, time to do final class prep...

This morning never ends

Time was moving along just fine, until about 10:50. Then it slowed to a crawl. My shift ends at 12:00, but I'm not sure it will ever get there.

I think I need more sleep.

If I was a cat, I'd be dead.

Curious Signs

There has been a peculiar sequence of signs in the window of this house near where I live. I'd love to know the story behind them. The one I made up in my head involves the real owner being absent for some reason, and someone else (family? con artists?) swooping in and trying to sell it out from under him. The house had been ramshackle for quite a while. Recently there were rapid renovations, like the house was being flipped. Then a "For Sale" sign went up. Not too long later, it came down, and the signs started appearing. "No Trespassing". "No more renovations." "Home is NOT for sale BY OWNER." "I do not know XXX." Printouts of property title information. *Fascinating.* (I wish I had taken photos of some of the kookier signs.)

It may be nothing more exciting than the new owner being a recluse, and taking those flyers that real estate agents are always sending around the wrong way. (And that the "I don't know XXX" sign had to do with him still getting the former owner's mail.)

Dishes? What dirty dishes?

Rug Hooking WIP

I'm getting closer to done. I'll need to order more of each colour, though. (Yes, I'm putting the loops too close together, but I don't want to pull everything out, and I didn't want to change density half way through either. This is a "learning experience.") I have six strips of the tweed left.

Argh.

What do you do when your body quits before your work for the night is done? My arms and legs have gone all twitchy-tired, and I'm *yawning*. I'm trying a change of position (moved from desk to bed) to see if that helps any.

Compliments

I had two of my students tell me after class that they like my lectures. :) (And this is *after* showing one of them how his quiz solution was in fact wrong, and so his deduction remained. I may have accidentally said "Ha! I *was* right!" when I coded in a test case that did in break it, after the student tried the "but this test case works on the typed-in solution" argument. After the "Ha!", I definitely apologized for my outburst, though.)

Compliments are really nice... especially after my disaster of a term the first time I taught several years ago, and how I'm being swallowed by work this term. (Yep, another late night again tonight, and the pile of dishes is once again towering. *sigh*)

Found on Flickr

Berries Ornament

I love this one too! (By the same artist as the Noel ornament.)

Found on Flickr

Noel Ornament in Forget-me-not

Pretty!

Found on Flickr

Anise Buttons

Oooo! Pretty!

Found on Flickr

Minions!

Awwww!

(Uh, yeah... I'm catching up on some of my pre-Christmas "Found on Flickr" posts I've been saving. I'm getting just enough time between students to post the occasional one, but not concentrate on other work that needs doing.)