Spring Break!

Yeah I have no idea how it's already Spring Break. It's not off to the bestest start. It was another night of not sleeping thanks to brain racing and more importantly PAIN. My back and hip feel like someone has been pounding on me.

I ended up stuck at work for 2 hours longer than I should have been which meant I got nothing packed in the car, nothing packed period. I barely had time to get the laundry done and I ended up LATE to Arch and Eddies which is death on a friday. Thankfully I had invited L and BB and TH to come and they got there in time to get us a table.

Dinner was good, the company better. And then DM (the third biologist) showed up with her husband and the head of IT strolled by too. Then we all went to the brew pub next door and DM followed. IT King was already there as was my provost and dean! We were all thinking the same thing: kill time before the student art exhibit opened at the Markay Theater. I'm SO glad this brew pub opened up. THey know their stuff.

The hipster bartender is obviously a student that NONE of us remember but he called us all by first name (so now that's going to drive me nuts). I had the scotch ale which was superb, dark, strong but not the least bit bitter. Then I had the lemon blueberry shandy, which was a mix of lemon blueberry lemonade and the hefewezien. Yum! The brewmaster stopped over to talk to me. Nice. Let me tell you a lot of beers are bitter and hard to drink but so far all of this tastes like beer should.

The art show was nice and two of the men who rescued the Markay (an art deco theater) talked to me and told me that it nearly had been torn down to make a parking lot. god. It's a beautiful place that took 2 million to finally repair but now we have music and theater almost every weekend. I love it even if I don't get to go often. I really liked a couple pieced of the art. We do have good art students. I ended up in a group picture that'll probably be in the paper and took a selfie with a Sam Spade standee. I haven't looked at it yet.

On the bad side, I'm nearly worthless. It took until 1230 to finish dishes and half pack. I'm exhausted and I haven't finished grading the mid terms so I guess that's coming with me. BUT on the scanned portion of the test on reproduction and immunity the class average was 62 percent. I have THREE Of them that scored 25% including one who I saw was trying to cheat but was looking on a student that had the worst score last time and it's been so long since I've seen her, I thought she had dropped.

Made it to PA

It was a nice easy drive. The only trial was in my own place. I used the little electric broom on some litter spillage and it toppled over and slammed into Kanda who had been hunkered on the throw rug whining about his fate (He knew he was going in the box because the bedroom doors were shut).

I'm lucky. I almost couldn't make the trip. Huge swaths of 32 and 50 were flooded just two days ago. I think I drove thru 80 miles of mud. I wish I had a dash cam to catch all the new lakes.

My parents have spent the winter revamping the house. THey've painted the master bath a beautiful slate blue, the main bath has a cool new spigot and the kitchen has a super cool new fridge and stove. They're metallic and reflective and Kanda is fascinated by his reflection for the first time ever.

I've spent the evening grading all the things and ruining their spring break.

now if only my sugar will behave. It was nearly 300 this morning and 400 now. WTF.