yesterday and tomorrow

I was so sorry I didn't have my camera with me yesterday. The snow was perfect, and we'd had fog during the night, so the trees were coated with rime and so beautiful, like silver lace. I swear, I wish I could find a smallish camera that took good pictures that I could just wear around my neck all the time like a flash drive!

I'm taking tomorrow off. I've got a job interview. I don't know if I really want it--it's down in the Special Ed department, and the people I'm interviewing with are the chair of the Educational Leadership Department (I didn't even know whe had a department called Educational Leadership) and his secretary, the staff clerk for the Center for Preparation of Educational Professionals, known as CPEP (which I think used to be called the Advising Center--everything is so pretentious these days--I'm surprised Special Ed doesn't have some glorified name), and a professor from the Special Ed department. As nearly as I can make out, the ex chair of the Special Ed department is now the Assistant Dean of the College and the chair of Educational Leadership is serving as interim chair of Special Ed. She seems to have also run CPEP, and it seems likely that the new department chair will since the CPEP secretary is sitting in on the interview. It all sounds very complicated and unsettled. I just want a nice quiet little department, a nice little desk in a nice little corner, where I smile at faculty and tell students how to find their way around. Part of the problem is that academia is no longer academia--it's turning into freaking business venture. I really hate that. If I'd wanted to work in a business environment, I wouldn't have chosen to make peanuts at a state university.

Anyway, that's tomorrow at 1. I think. I wrote down the date and place but not the time because I'm a moron. I may have to call HR in the morning just to double-check. Then I plan to take care of the cat I'm cat sitting (probably for the last time--her people are moving to Chicago), pick up the Ts' county rabies tags, pick up a prescription, and go out to WalMart to get that DVD/VHS player that also burns DVDs from your videotapes. (Did I say my DVD player croaked?) While I'm out there I'll probably look at the pathetic yarn collection. Our so-called SuperStore actually carries less variety than the old smaller store. I hate Walmart. (Cranky tonight, aren't I?)

I need to go back to taking all my vitamins and supplements--I ran out and didn't re-order, and I'm starting to drag, and get tired at 8 p.m. and wanting to sleep all the time. It's just that they're expensive (what isn't, these days?). Which is why I'm interviewing for another job--if I were to get this, I'd make 10% more than I do now--about $180 a month.

But I won't have to get up early tomorrow, and it's supposed to be sunny and in the 40s, so I can take the Ts out in the morning and again when I get home after the interview and errands, so that's all good.

Timber has been so sweet and loving lately. In the evening before dinner he comes and throws himself down at my feet. I have to lift him onto the couch, and then he flips himself over onto his back and snuggles into my arms, and it's very very nice. AND-- two nights ago he not only let me brush him, he laid flat on the bed and was pretty relaxed about the whole thing. I only got one side done, but hey--we're making progress!!

I got a package in the mail from Monika yesterday, and I've been poking and squeezing and feeling it, but have promised myself not to open it until Christmas morning. Thank you, Monika! Now I have something to look forward to on Christmas morning!