Columbus Day weekend meant no work on Monday (woo ( Read more... )

( cut for boring Saturday details )

Friday: got out of work at 3, came home & had a nap, then got up & went out with some friends. Back home by 7 (early enough for me!). The day wasn't spectacular, but it wasn't a disaster like the rest of the week ( Read more... )

Number of naps: 4 (1 Friday, 1 Saturday, 2 Sunday)
Meters swam: 8000 (half Saturday, half Sunday)
Temperature in the water on Saturday: 75F (normal temp is 80F, so 75F is very cold!)
Visits to the Z Center: 3, 2 to swim, 1 to coach
Loads of laundry done: 4 (last one in dryer now)
Episodes of Inspector Morse watched: 3 (including the one I'm watching now ( Read more... )

Sunday: woke up, prepared cake #3, put it in oven. Took Toby to a park in a nearby town. The weather was fabulous and I left my jacket in the car during the walk. My Dad was skeptical, but stripped off his own coat before we'd reached halfway around the lake. Later we ate lunch al fresco, talked to various family members (including the mega-cute ( Read more... )

was supposed to leave my building at 1215 on Friday to get to a meeting on main campus by 1230. I didn't leave until 1400; needless to say I didn't make the meeting and went straight home instead. I finished up packing (not much to do; I'd done the vast majority of it the day before) and went out to catch the red line ( Read more... )

Where the hell did November come from? I can look at my calendar right now and accept that October is gone, but memories of the days are rather fuzzy. Swim. Work. Pie. Nephew.

And now it's November, and daylight saving time left us. I get a bit grumpy at the time change in November, as people who are usually not earlybirds feel smug by the ( Read more... )

On Friday I started coming down with a sore throat, runny nose. It picked up on Saturday, and by then I knew it was a full fledged cold ( Read more... )

I went to yoga last night, as I do almost every Wednesday. At the beginning of class, my teacher spoke about the change in seasons, and asked what people were doing to honour this time of year. I confessed that I was eating a great deal of pie ( Read more... )

My friend and hiking companion N and I agreed to meet at work at 0830, but of course it ended up not working out that way. I went for a swim early, but even that was complicated by the pouring rain. The original plan was for me to go to work, swim, and then back to W98. That's what I do on a typical (work) morning. With the rain, I figured it was ( Read more... )