It is warm enough the slugs are coming out, but not for long. We have a possible late snow in the forecast for Tuesday. In the meantime all the plants are getting quite active. I took this shot of a hellebore Thursday morning after class but there are plenty of daffodils out and about. The ornamental plum trees out front are budding.
Yesterday morning before and after class I was in the midst of an interaction with a portfolio manager in our local League that wants to bring some interns in to do special projects. The way he wants to do this gives him more control but in way that creates more work (and expense) for the rest of us. I thought we had this settled, but he is being obstinate.
Right in the middle of all that I received a very clever scam attempt. At first, I was like, what? It was a message from our President and as I am not happy with doing all that I am doing dark thoughts arose unbidden in my mind wondering what was going on. It was uncomfortable and then when the second more direct request came in, I was like…oh, this is a scam and reported it and didn’t engage any further. Bullet dodged and all that, but it was unsettling.
Then I needed to go downtown to meet with the person who will be taking on a number of my responsibilities in July. She wanted to have a lunch meeting. I am not crazy about meeting with food involved, partially because of my dental work, partially because of the expense, and partially because I have never liked meetings with food. Breakfast out with friends I love, so it is not the going out part that is the problem, it is the working part that is the problem.
We were able to find a fast casual place nearby and it worked out and was a productive meeting, but I would have preferred an office meeting. Oh well. Everybody has their own style, of doing this sort of thing.
In the middle of the meeting, I got a voicemail from our actual President about a duplicate check at the bank and in light of the other stuff was further disconcerted. But this was all a valid thing, it was just the timing of it that created this sense of unease.
Come to think of it, it could be external factors creating that.
I now need to draft a response to Mr. Obstinate telling him I have the backing of our President and State Treasurer in my point of view. Fun times.
As for many of you, we have the time change tonight and I am so jealous of British Columbia deciding that after the change tonight they are not doing it anymore. As I have students now in what will be three times zones, more fun times ahead.
Mrs. Sherlock had her heart procedure on Tuesday and that went well. She then spent a harrowing seven hours in an emergency room Thursday night with her friend who owns Will the dog. The friend was finally admitted and now Mrs. Sherlock has the dog full time. There is a back-up guy for the dog, and I hope she takes advantage of his availability because this is a lot for her. She sees the surgeon next Wednesday.
I listened to this neurologist talking this week about the latest science behind how the brain responds to information about food and nutrients. This is something that I am thinking about a lot because after a good 18 month or so run of steady modest weight loss I am now gaining and I am not a happy camper about this.
Clearly, I need to figure out another approach here. It’s a puzzle. We are all each different and what works for one person most definitely won’t work for another. I see this with exercise every day. Everyone I work with has a slightly different way of interacting with the whole concept of movement and exercise.
But if I keep having days like yesterday this all might be way harder than I thought.
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