but what with time differences and all that, I'm going to throw my happy birthday wishes into the ether today so they have plenty of time to travel. Big one this year. Officially now you have reached the "old fool" state. I'll raise a glass to you tonight. Cheers to you, wherever you are.
I found out that a faculty member is going to be taking early retirement effective in a few months. His office is down the corridor from mine about 5 doors, but across another corridor and it has a window! I know we are getting one or two new faculty soon but I thought I'd at least put the bug into the Administrator's ear that I would dearly dearly love to get out of this closet and into an office with a window! Even if the area is noisy I could close the door if I had a window. But she had already promised that office to another investigator whose lab is across the door from that office but his current office is way far away. *sigh* I understand. And she continued that everyone is aware of my situation .. noisy, small, cramped, airless ... need I go on? I had a student in here last week and she said, "We've GOT to get you a new office"!. I asked her who she knew. ;-) Long story short, it's not likely I'll be moving any time soon. There are other office staff that are down 5 floors and they should really be moved upstairs before I get to move. I am low man on the totem pole no matter how much the Administrator denies it. Frankly, I am grateful to have a job in this terrible economy so I don't make waves. Anyway, she said that since I can work from home my situation is not considered that desperate. And I like to work from home so .... there ya go.
I brought my convertible mittens to noon knitting yesterday to ask the advice of the other knitters and we agreed that making the "flip top" a bit bigger might solve the problem. Only way to find out is to knit another prototype. This time I'm going to use cheap yarn rather than the nice stuff. And bigger needles -- don't need to make another prototype out of sock yarn.
I am looking forward to the weekend. It's going to be nice and quiet. Mr. M is out doing a big show every night starting from tonight and also part of Sunday. I am not going to be rehearsing for the next couple weeks -- whether they know it or not -- so I can do lots of fun things and get some rest. I am stressed and I don't think I've yet completely recovered from that sleepless Sunday night. I slept okay last night but was up at 3 to let the dog out. Thankfully I fell back asleep but I was a hard go to get out of bed. Since I have to stop at Trader Joe's and refuse to shop there on the weekend, I caved in and drove again so I can stop on my way home. Tomorrow though I'm going to ride in. I think I sleep better when I've had a 16 mile ride.
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