Random comments:
Rudder is planning to take a half day off from work
to hang out with me. This does not mean that he will actually take half of the day
off; more likely, he will manage to get out at 4 instead of 5:30.
Maybe.
I did something this morning that I hadn't done since we broke
down and got a maid service: I cleaned. With scrubbing and everything. The plan is
to cancel this week's maid service, then if I still have no prospects (but see
today's earlier entry)
in two weeks, to go to a monthly schedule. I only did the downstairs, saving the
upstairs for another day. As any athlete knows, overdoing it on your first day
back risks injuries.
I didn't bother putting anything on to clean,
after taking off the clothes I had worn to the gym so I could throw them in the
laundry. After all, skin is waterproof and easy to clean, and I wasn't planning on
using any particularly nasty chemicals. However, while our back windows face on a
very private yard, it would have been better had I remembered to close the front
blinds before doffing gym clothes. Fortunately, there's a very large queen palm,
due for a trimming, between the window and the street.
There was an
article in our local newspaper on Sunday about teaching in community colleges. A
sidebar claims that "starting professors can make $42000-$73000". Hmmm...I
think I hear a drumming sound. That must be any teachers reading this either
rolling on the floor helpless with laughter, or stampeding to Arizona, depending
on how sure they are that the writer goofed. Those numbers sound unlikely to me,
anyway. Though I am tempted to call around and check....
I suspect
the reasons I felt compelled to write all these maunderings was that I really
should be starting on my
href="http://dichroic.diaryland.com/yardprop.html">proposal. Aroint ye,
temptation! Begone!