Back in the Saddle Again

I only took Friday off, but it was wonderful. I feel like I'm back at work today after a summer off.

 

I've only been out a few times this year, but a pattern of disaster striking seems to be forming. Last time I was out, there was a lunchtime fight in the library; hadn't been a library fight for over 30 years. And on Friday, the substitute left at the end of the day and apparently left the library doors wide open. At some point they were closed, but there were still kids inside. So kids, unsupervised, were sitting here for more than two hours. Cheez. It's not on me, of course, since I actually did leave substitute plans and they end with "Close and lock the doors," but the whole point of having/being a substitute is not to leave kids unsupervised. The sub in question is a bozo, and the secretary who assigns the subs said she knew that, but thought he could do the least damage in the library. So there.

 

We had a most disappointing shopping trip to a David's Bridal store yesterday, where the help was rude and not at all helpful, and we walked out without a dress. R has a very heavy work schedule in February and March, and I don't know when we'll get to shop again, but she'll work something out. She may end up with a dress from the Internet somewhere; my only concern, of courses, is that it fits and she likes it, and isn't looking madly for a dress at the last minute and we end up with something super-expensive. Been there, done that, thanks to the number of proms my girls got to go to.

 

I finally finished that book, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell! I liked it, but boy was it long. A very interesting book. Someone described it to me (after I'd started it) as kind of Harry Potter for grownups, which it isn't, but it is about the rebirth of magic in England, so well documented that you'd think it was a history instead of a novel, but duh, it's about the rebirth of magic in England, which would have been in all the papers if it had been real, no? Cleverly written and a good story, but loooong. I'm looking for my next read. I have three books on my desk here at school and several waiting at home, but I haven't decided which way to go yet.

 

I am making dinner TWICE this week; are you proud of me? Some pasta thing tonight and fish tomorrow. Expect the end of time any minute now.

 

Despite my weekend, I am very, very tired now. I've gone off that med that I think I mentioned last week and said I was going off of, and though it had no positive effect on me that I could ever see, I suppose making the change could have something to do with the tired. I'm also very achy, but not really more than I was on the med sometimes. I think it's the fibromyalgia acting up. I haven't worked out since Friday and don't expect to today; it's hard to exercise when just walking and sitting hurts, but maybe I'll fit in a little later, even it's just one thing. (I like to do a half hour made up of several activities.) And I have to go to the supermarket from school (see dinner twice, above), so that's another vote against the workout. I wish the human body would just tune itself up, like .... like .... well, I can't think of anything else that does that, although the human body probably did in earlier times when people were all hunter-gatherer-wanderers.

 

It's a balmy 32 degrees out, just freezing, which means we're having a heat wave (a tropical ...) compared to the last few days. Snow later in the week, I think. But I have started to notice the lengthening of the days, a most welcome development. I left for work a little later today and it was not pitch-black dark, and it's not getting dark in the afternoon until nearly 5:30. Isn't that lovely?