This week felt like the real first week of school. Last week Labor Day made it an easy(ish) 4-day affair. This week was the real thing – not for sissies.
Last Saturday Belana got stung by a bee at a cross country meet and had a bad reaction. So Monday my day started with calling both the hospital and AFS to make sure I got all the insurance stuff in order. Later in class I managed to crash the projector, which messed up my demo, then I had to rush to a meeting. At which I have to sit at the head table – so I had to come in and go take my place, late, where everyone could see me. Came home and I can’t remember if I made corn pudding that night or if I just ate junk and made the corn in Tuesday (though leaning to the junk theory). I know I went back upstairs and worked another 2 hours after dinner.
Tuesday was raccoon cleanup day – the animal control guys came to vacuum up the soiled insulation and blow in new and fog the attic with disinfectant. I had this idea that while they were working I’d be carrying boxes down and transferring the contents to clean containers and wiping stuff off – but it doesn’t work that way. They do their thing and then I was actually supposed to stay out of the attic till at least Tuesday night so the fog could dissipate. Cleanup got postponed to Saturday – and I’m so glad. Mark and I did it together and it took like 5 hours with both of us working. I would’ve been miserable trying to do it by myself.
And it was rainy on Tuesday – so I wouldn’t have been able to pile stuff in the driveway to sort and clean like we did Saturday – when it was a perfect fall day: dry, sunny, 70s. The attic looks – and smells! – so much better. I found a box with 1982 & 1983 Survival Graphics calendars, although I had to throw out the 1982 one because it’d been peed on. And various old artifacts of the ’80s, and my marriage license. A couple of letters and a poem from my brother. An original P.S. Mueller wedding card.
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Wednesday I biked out to the east side to see the kitchen at this community center kind of place where I’m supposed to do a cooking demo at the end of the month. On the way back, I stopped and bought a squash and a coffee at Willy Street. Class went better, with no projection problems like Monday. After class, I met Susan for a belated birthday drink and appetizers at a steak place up on the square. Then I went home and made the squash into sample mack & cheese with squash replacing some of the cheese sauce, for the class I was going to teach Thursday.
Which brings us to Thursday. Normal work day, then I rushed home to get my CSA box, and load up to go to cooking class. Which would have gone a lot better if I could have gotten the ovens lit.
The main aspects of Friday were working at home, broccoli-tomato-corn casserole, (I used corn instead of garbanzo beans, a few tablespoons of pesto instead of fresh basil, and sauteed the onions and garlic) and the Rousers geezer show at 6:00 PM. It was a full moon, but I couldn’t see when I biked home because it was too cloudy.
