{"id":8682,"date":"2022-03-05T19:58:39","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T01:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/?p=8682"},"modified":"2022-03-05T20:02:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T02:02:43","slug":"things-always-look-better-in-the-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/05\/things-always-look-better-in-the-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Things always look better in the morning"},"content":{"rendered":"

I felt so shitty when I was writing Friday night<\/a>. I’d eaten too much and not gotten enough done at work and just generally felt deadlines and fat phobias and stuck-ness and pandemic blues crashing down on me. I was headachey and my stomach hurt and I was cranky and tired. And there was a funky charge – a large one – on one of my credit cards, that I’ve disputed, but that just added to the general malaise.<\/p>\n

I did the long walk to the library Friday, which should’ve made me feel good, but somehow I couldn’t get through the afternoon without chocolate, and then made chex mix and ate way too much of it before dinner. I probably should’ve had a drink.<\/p>\n

Seen on my walk Friday:<\/p>\n

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Don’t know what this stuff is – looks like Wisconsin kudzu to me, all along the edge of the former railroad tracks now a bike path.<\/p><\/div>\n

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That nice looking snow we had at the end of last week<\/a> is gone, gone, gone.<\/p>\n

So this morning I got up and spent about an hour – while it got darker and darker outside – answering work emails.<\/p>\n

And in the midst of that, I got the papers in before it rained – so that was the day’s first triumph.<\/p>\n

I went out by car to the pick up Farmers Market<\/a>, and I finally remembered to take the empty egg boxes, Yay! and it was raining a bit, but stopped by the time I got home. And I had enough time to walk to campus for a volunteer training for the Film Fest<\/a>, back in person for the first time in two years. It was sunny for my walk there, cloudy for my walk home, but not raining.<\/p>\n

As soon as I got home, it got dark again and started raining, but I don’t have to go anywhere else and was actually hoping for a rainy afternoon so I’d get some grading done.<\/p>\n

I did a bit but probably not as much as I should’ve.<\/p>\n

Here’s a pretty picture I got in one of my apps.<\/p>\n

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Maria Sibylla Merian<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

Turns out it’s by a naturalist who lived from 1647\u20131717, and it’s not only a picture of a rose, it’s a Rose with a metamorphosis of a leaf roller and a glued beetle larva. She was one of the earliest naturalists to observe insects so directly.<\/p>\n

Now (Saturday night) it sounds\u00a0 like it’s pouring so who knows what’s happening in the basement. I’ll check later.<\/p>\n

Cooking adventures were quite satisfactory this afternoon. I made this potato cabbage pie<\/a> for dinner and it was really quite tasty. I roasted the back & neck & wing tips of the 2020 Thanksgiving turkey that’ve been in the freezer since then, and it’s now simmering to become turkey stock. And there’s a new batch of sourdough rising in the fridge to bake tomorrow. It’s too dark to get pictures of the other stuff, but I expect you’ll get to see the bread tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Today’s post-volunteer-training, breakfast & lunch together<\/a> is the overleaf – trying to eat lightly after Friday’s excesses.<\/p>\n

A better day. Fingers crossed the basement stays dry.<\/p>\n

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