Crushing (tiny) dreams
Well, Laurie, it’s Monday. Night. You made it!
Sadly, Mondays are my easiest day. I only have TA stuff to do today, no sections, and no classes. But for all that, I got a heck of a lot done. Woke up early-ish, and got a paper read. Made a reaaaaally good roast beef sandwich and got myself to campus. Class went well, and I got a chance to finish grading the homeworks this afternoon. Had our weekly TAs meeting, which at least left me feeling like I’ve got a bit of an idea what to do in sections this week. We’re moving our meetings to Wednesdays, actually, which makes me a little worried about getting instructions for that weeks section right before we meet… but I think we’ll be fine.
Came home just in time to go with Lewis to take the Boo to the vet. We were going to get him all vaccinated for his outdoor activities these days. Got a little distracted by the vet, though, who confirmed my suspicions that Mr. Boo shouldn’t be an outdoor kitty without claws. So Lewis and I hemmed and hawed for a while and finally decided it was time to curtail his outdoor activities, mostly for his own safety, but a bit (I must admit) for our pocket book as well. Can’t afford much in the way of expensive vet visits or vaccine regimes… but I think it’ll all be okay. Boo wasn’t “utilizing” the outdoors much when we weren’t out there already, and what little he did outside of our yard has so far been getting in trouble and getting into fights. No es bueno. Compound this with the worry I was having about him being an outdoor kitty and Lewis’ mom’s cat Myles just having been diagnosed with FIV… I’m feeling okay about this decisions. It is going to be a little heart breaking trying to get Boo to understand he can’t go outside any more. He was awfully cute prowling around out there.
Post-vet, I made dinner and chatted up Lewis about Trubetzkoi. Got our laundry folded (we’re going to be all wrinkly this week… oh well). I also made pumpkin chocolate chip cookies! They’re rather tasty. All cakey and chocolatey. Got the grades uploaded into the gradebook, Lewis finished our draft of the homework for tomorrow, and all I have left to do is print that out, and get myself to bed. And lo, it’s sounding pretty great right about now.