I just got home and kerplumped down on the couch. Busy day today. I got to school at 9 a.m., printed some things for class, took several phonecalls (work-related), taught 2 classes back-to-back and then had a 10 minute break before holding the first research club meeting. That was really fun. And actually, teaching the classes were fun with the students very involved in discussion (who are you and what have you done with the little people who left on summer break last semester?). Then I had more meetings. I didn’t have time to eat or to photocopy the chapters I need to get scanned in and uploaded to the website so the kids don’t have to go to the library (because they won’t) to photocopy them themselves. I still think it really quite silly that we can’t order in books and have the kids buy them, especially for courses like statistics where they really need to have the book in hand or where the book is being used in multiple courses (5 copies available — 4 of which can be checked out — to share among more than 80 students is a bit slim). So anyway, this means that tomorrow I need to go in at 8 to get the photocopying done and handed to the scanning people in time for the kids to access the material by next week and before the first meetings and classes of the day start. I also have a meeting with the provost tomorrow so I need to sort out my wardrobe for tomorrow a bit more carefully than usual. Argh and then I have an evening meeting with a grad student that is likely to run until nearly midnight. I may splurge tomorrow evening and eat a meal at the cafe as I won’t have time for lunch and I’ll be too tired to cook once I finally get home.

I have some cute and whacky cat stories to share as soon as I get time, as well as posting up some pics of rescued kitties Apollo and Shachori in their quarantine quarters in the U.K.

Now I’m going to go cook something for dinner and get lost in an episode of Lost before getting back to work!