Day 144

Christmas shopping is done. I got the last of what I needed yesterday morning and I wrapped most of them last night. Just a few more to wrap and I can cross something of my To Do list.

Boo is feeling better. The antibiotics must have started to do their job because after 2 days of not eating she started eating again last night. Not the full on chow down like Spook was doing, but she ate none the less. Now we’ll have to see how she travels. I can’t give her the sedatives while she is on the antibiotics so I may have a 3.5 hour car ride with a whiney kitty. My plan is to sedate Spook – hopefully if Boo sees her lying down and being quite she will do the same.

I’ve been feeling for lack of a better term “off” as of late. This morning I woke up to my alarm, and it took me 5 minutes to figure out what day it was and if I needed to go to work today or not. Yesterday I had to be called to a meeting I scheduled because for some reason I was convinced I scheduled it for an hour later than I did. I even look at my calendar yesterday and saw the meeting at 10 instead of 9. I felt so silly and unprepared. Things like that just keep happening more and more frequently. Aaron tells me it just because the holidays are here and I have more to worry about. I hope that’s it. But it could be any number of things, the cold, the short days, the migraines, the migraine medicine, the 3 important projects I am trying to balance as well as my other normal maintenance thingies. I have notice my mood is down more too. I certainly hope I don’t have the winter blahs already – we’re not even to the official start of winter yet. I plan on adjusting my work hours in January so I can start running on my lunch hour. With it being as cold as it has been I have ran since December started. :( I'm hoping a little bit more activity in my schedule will help balance me out again.

Finals are winding down here and campus is starting to empty out. I typically don’t mind the students but some of them just really grate on my nerves. For example – we have 1 classroom in our area, and a couple offices for TAs. Students will come and just sprawl out on the floor an more or less block the hallways and I literally have to step over them. I would love to tell them this is not a lounge area but I don’t. They also do the same thing in the coffee shop. Well not the laying down bit, but just taking up more space than they need to. There are times where we have 6 people crowded around a table meant for three sipping our java while at the next much larger table is one student, sitting in one chair, coat in another, backpack on a third books all over the place and not even drinking coffee. Enough ranting for one day.

256 days to go.