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stoutfellowMy all-too-brief break ends on Tuesday. Summer Semester actually begins on Monday, but it's a holiday, so classes don't start until the next day. Tomorrow I'll go on to campus to prepare syllabi and generally map out the course. (Summer courses last ten weeks at most, compared to the usual fifteen, so if I'm to get everything in, I'll have to work fairly quickly.)
Meanwhile, I've mostly been loafing, but today, at least, I got a fair bit done. I walked the dogs - I got out of the habit during the winter, but aim to be conscientious about it this summer. Then I went around the fence with a hammer, pounding back in all the nails that have worked loose over the years. (I'm a terrible procrastinator, y'know.) There's one post that's cracked across; I'll have to figure out what to do about that.
Then I went over to Kohl's. I was down to two trustworthy pairs of pants. (The third one is still wearable, but if it splits any further at the crotch, it'll come apart.) At first, all I could find were jeans, and I was mentally composing a rant about the lack of wide-belly-short-leg pants, and the disappearance of nice pants from Kohl's shelves. I picked out one pair of jeans, then gave up - I still needed socks, underwear, and a couple of belts. While collecting those, I stumbled on the place where they did keep the nice pants, and bought three more pair. At the cashier, as usual, they pestered me about getting a Kohl's card, and this time the bill was large enough that a 20% discount was worthwhile, so I succumbed. Still cost me close to $200.
At home again, I got online and ordered Kindle versions of a bunch of books I'd been lusting after - all three volumes of M. K. Wren's Phoenix Legacy, Ben Aaronovitch's Midnight Riot (AKA Rivers of London), Ann Leckie's Hugo-nominated Ancillary Justice, Nicola Griffith's historical novel Hild, and Katherine Addison's The Goblin Emperor. (I've about decided to get all of my F/SF in electronic form from this point on, with a handful of exceptions - Bujold, Pratchett, Powers, maybe Butcher, maybe a few others.) Of course, I'm in the middle of The Prime Minister and Pepys' Diary, so it will be a while before I can get to the new purchases.
Still most of an afternoon and an evening to go. I'll probably work on my databases - finance, library, and Skyrim - for a while.
Meanwhile, I've mostly been loafing, but today, at least, I got a fair bit done. I walked the dogs - I got out of the habit during the winter, but aim to be conscientious about it this summer. Then I went around the fence with a hammer, pounding back in all the nails that have worked loose over the years. (I'm a terrible procrastinator, y'know.) There's one post that's cracked across; I'll have to figure out what to do about that.
Then I went over to Kohl's. I was down to two trustworthy pairs of pants. (The third one is still wearable, but if it splits any further at the crotch, it'll come apart.) At first, all I could find were jeans, and I was mentally composing a rant about the lack of wide-belly-short-leg pants, and the disappearance of nice pants from Kohl's shelves. I picked out one pair of jeans, then gave up - I still needed socks, underwear, and a couple of belts. While collecting those, I stumbled on the place where they did keep the nice pants, and bought three more pair. At the cashier, as usual, they pestered me about getting a Kohl's card, and this time the bill was large enough that a 20% discount was worthwhile, so I succumbed. Still cost me close to $200.
At home again, I got online and ordered Kindle versions of a bunch of books I'd been lusting after - all three volumes of M. K. Wren's Phoenix Legacy, Ben Aaronovitch's Midnight Riot (AKA Rivers of London), Ann Leckie's Hugo-nominated Ancillary Justice, Nicola Griffith's historical novel Hild, and Katherine Addison's The Goblin Emperor. (I've about decided to get all of my F/SF in electronic form from this point on, with a handful of exceptions - Bujold, Pratchett, Powers, maybe Butcher, maybe a few others.) Of course, I'm in the middle of The Prime Minister and Pepys' Diary, so it will be a while before I can get to the new purchases.
Still most of an afternoon and an evening to go. I'll probably work on my databases - finance, library, and Skyrim - for a while.
