Tomorrow morning, the contractor's crew arrives to start tearing out the fireplace and the pantry. It's really happening now. It wasn't supposed to start until next Monday, but I guess they finished up whatever other work they had because the contractor sounded like he had guys just sitting around doing nothing. The downside is that I am now officially living on microwave and fridge alone. And I may end up on microwave alone fairly soon, depending on when exactly they need to pull the fridge out.
I feel as though this has been occupying most of my time, but that's only a couple hours an evening. Where are all the rest of the hours? They were probably spent at school or sleeping (but not sleeping at school -- I haven't fallen that far yet). I've been productive, but not the extra-productive I've been hoping for in the first third of this month. I have a couple more sections of notes for one class, and then one more chapter for another class, then I'll be done with all of my notes for the semester. Once I get to that point, I can work on the thing I was supposed to have done over the summer. Oh, but I have that 3rd grade curriculum project to work on, and the job ad needs to be posted, and I have a student doing some research that I'm supposed to be mentoring, and I'm supposed to give a talk to UNLV's InterVarsity group in two weeks, and I have a faculty gathering next weekend that's a potluck and I have no kitchen. But one thing at a time...
I need to take about an hour to really sit down and focus on that IV talk. I've got a good outline, but I really need to flesh it out carefully and then time the whole thing to make sure I fit in the 30-40 minute window. Maybe I'll do that Saturday morning. It's not like I can watch TV or do anything like that right now.
I'm hungry. Time to microwave a burrito. I'll be doing a lot of that for a while...
