The Good:
- The following email arrived in my mailbox this morning: ”We have finished processing your passport, and it has been mailed to you.”
- Football season is over which means that The Coach and I can have a quiet night at home with frozen pizza and a movie.
- Pre-registration advising is over and the stream of students invading my office has dwindled to a trickle. I might actually get some other work done. It’s about time.
- I’m taking Saturday off to clean my house and plan my turkey day menu. The Coach is going to rake the leaves. We might even make it to the driving range.
- It’s Friday. It’s Sunny. It’s The Coach’s payday. How can it be bad?
The Bad:
- I had a student who assumed that I would come in at 8 this morning to give him a make up test … for a class that’s not my own. WTF? Obviously, I nipped that in the bud.
- I need to figure out what to do about the BPOD. Over the past three weeks, our big dog has developed some very odd behavioral quirks. By odd, I mean scary. He can’t seem to get enough to eat and he attacks the other dogs if they approach either food bowl. He has also started growling at The Coach. I hope this is not a side effect of his epilepsy, but we’ll be making a vet appointment for him very soon.
- On a related note: It seems to be a bad time for pets. My friend down the street? One of her dogs had a stroke two weeks ago and had to be put to sleep. Then today, her other dog had to be put down because his hind legs were paralyzed. One of the secretaries had her hamster die. One of the other professors had a hedgehog die. One of my former students had her hedgehog die. These things make people sad and grumpy. Sigh.
The Ugly:
- Damn, but I really need to get my eyebrows waxed before I end up with a unibrow. And my hair? It needs about 2″ of dead ends chopped off. Maybe I can deal with this over Thanksgiving break.
