Weirdly Hectic Few Days

Well, I don’t know what’s going on with Lady Karma, but it seems like she’s determined that I’m not going to get much blogging done. Several other things have managed to happen: a $450 project for a client, an entire day of cleaning, a vast order of beading supplies from Fire Mountain, a conference with the financial adviser, a junket to a doctor’s office. But when time enough for writing presented itself, the energy for writing did not.

This is final exam week, lhudly sing huzzah! Two more class meetings, and I’ll never see another freshman comp student as long as I live. As soon as the 7:30 class is finished with its Phaque Phinal (the school requires us to show up for final exams, whether or not a final is relevant to a give class, so to get the students in the door so I can get myself paid, I give them an extra-credit quiz), I’m racing back here to finish cleaning the house. The floors desperately need to be steam-cleaned; that’ll take a couple of hours. Ugh.

After I madly threw myself around dusting, climbing up on a ladder to clean the summer’s dirt collection off the ceiling fans, vacuuming under all the furniture, and then dustmopping 1860 square feet behind the vacuum cleaner, a windstorm came up during Evensong last night. When we got out of choir, a stiff, cold breeze was whipping the trees. This morning my  nose is stuffed up and I’m sneezing…and sure enough, a new layer of dust has been laid down on all the furniture!

Have been wanting to do a roundup, but there’s soooo little time!

Check out this site that I found in while cruising for Adjunctorium: it’s called Academic Cog. Its author is a good writer, as one can see in this post about a fairly typical incident in a fairly typical semester, one of the many good reasons to find some other line of work, IMHO. I guess one runs into sad cases no matter what the workplace, though.

I’m unable to comment at this site, because it’s another of those annoying Blogger sites with the comment function set so that you can’t comment unless you’re signed in to a Google account, which forces you to assume an identity you prefer not to use for blogging. I am NOT GONNA sign into your site as eng102[at]gmail[dot]com! Gr. Why on earth does anyone use Blogger?

Speaking of comments functions, I see Jesse the Wonder Guru is experimenting with a new spamcatcher. It’s changing the way the comments look and also changing some of the comments functions — it won’t let you enter HTML tags, for example, and it deletes lines between paragraphs, making you look illiterate. Oh well.

TB has his usual run of interesting posts over at Blue Collar Workman: the tale of the itinerant tool thief and a grutch about trying to get supplies in the city.

Revanche worries about her dad and marvels at a new Starbucks wonder.

Frugal Scholar has been publishing one handy and tasty-looking recipe after another. She covets a handbag from Nordstrom’s, a purchase she regards as an extravagance even at 40% to 60% off, and contemplates “paying” for it by economizing with “food that could be from a restaurant, but is cheap.”

Evan is closing in on the finale of the head-banging process of buying a new home.

Planting Our Pennies has a really interesting post describing discounted cash flow — if you thought you were going to get rich flipping houses, this one is an eye-opener.

Lordie! It’s after 6. I’ve got to be out the door by quarter to 7 and I haven’t even fed the dog, much less bathed, washed hair, painted face, and fed self. Sorry to all our other Favorite Bloggers, but that’s it for this week! Later!!