A Million O'Clock

It's been a long day. Not a bad day, necessarily, but a long one. But tomorrow I get to sleep in, all the way until 6:30, assuming I don't wake myself up before that.

A nice busy day at school, a class that actually took notes when I told them to (a shocker), positively vile weather, and then, Surprise! There was a transformer fire someplace, which means there were no trains for R to take except here to B-Town, so that meant picking her up and getting some dinner, and then driving her home. I only just now finished all my little tasks and stuff, and here I am.

Where was I again?

I'm glad I'm not driving to this workshop tomorrow, only to the other librarian's house -- maybe fifteen minutes away -- and then she's driving. The last time I went to a workshop in this place, the weather was like today: windy, rainy, cold. That was a two-day workshop and I went alone. This is a two-hour workshop, then we'll have a nice lunch and come home. I'm not so big on long drives anymore, so this is fine.

As for the weather, the place we're going to probably had snow today, as did the northern edges and western parts of New Jersey, as well as, of course, parts north of us. In October. This is just a wee bit early for us here. At lunch today, the Other Chai said this was "lake effect snow." ??? "What lake?" I asked her. She said we were on the edges of a system off the Great Lakes, which really, I find hard to believe, but maybe it's true. Her son went to college in Syracuse, so he pretty much lived lake effect style for seven years. (He went to law school there, too.) All I know is that it was cold and nasty today, and there was thunder in the middle of the day. Don't like that. Hate wind.

And now I'm going to tuck my cold toes under two comforters and see if that helps.

WATCHING RACHEL MADDOW :: ENTRY #1892
READING: How to Rig an Election by Allen Raymond