Mondays, yay (not)

So I started my week back at work by having a guy come up while I was waiting at the Hardees drive-through to tell me I had a gas line leak and had gas spurting all over the place. So the van goes in to get the gas line leak and the broken left axle boot (?) repaired. ka-ching

As I anticipated, Alice had a huge stack of ms. waiting for me. What I hadn't anticipated, and which annoyed me no end, was that there were a lot of inserts that were teachng aids the TAs had used. Why, pray, didn't she have them send me those by e-mail so I wouldn't have to retype them? That about doubles my work. I sent an e-mail to the TAs myself, asking them to forward the docs if they still have them--hopefully not all of them have left yet--seems like some of them are going to do independent studies or finish their theses over the summer.

The twin window fan I bought at K-Mart yesterday doesn't work; I'll have to take it back.

The news is just uniformly depressing. I'l sare you the rant; I don't really want this to be a political blog.

It's 90 degrees, and since I didn't do it yesterday, I've got to collect deadwood to put out for pickup tomorrow. I'm not inclined, but I've got to get them out of here; I think this week is the last free-yard-waste pickup until fall. It's also "clean-up day," which means you can put all kinds of junk out--broken furniture, old windows, dead appliances, general crap--and have it hauled off for free. As usual, I haven't cleared out my garage, basement or spare room. I keep swearing I'm going to hire some grad students to help me, but I never seem to have any money.

I'm supposed to start cat-sitting tomorrow. That's $130, which will help a little bit.

Since I couldn't read last week or do much computer work, I started a project. This is a baby sweater for my nephew due in August. The color reproduction here is just about right. The yarn is a bulky-weight lopi-spun merino handpaint; I'm using 11s with it.

To make sure it looks boy-ly, I think I'm going to do the sleeves and put on a hood, or maybe a knitted-on scarf, in a solid royal blue; I've got some bulky-weight that I think will do. I'd like to use big buttons in maybe lime green, turquoise, royal, and dark rose (okay, that's not very boy-ly). I think it's going to be a 2-year-old size--I've got a pattern that's about what I want, but I'm having to do math to get the dimensions right. If I've got any handpainted yarn left over, maybe I'll do a little pair of booties and a hat, trimmed with blue. We'll see.