one more week until Thanksgiving break
Nov. 12th, 2021 08:46 am1. I got a book from ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
aphrodite_mine (The Yonder Side of Sass and Texas) that I'm looking forward to reading. <3
2. Fiona got her first dose of the COVID vaccine yesterday. Whoo!
3. Another colleague retired yesterday. Our numbers are dwindling pretty rapidly. On the upside, I think that means the possibilities for overload money are looking pretty good for spring semester, and we will need to bank as much of that as possible because if I get elected chair of Senate for next academic year, I will not be eligible for overload money during that academic year since the chair gets a course release. And that will make paying for that year of Emma's college a lot harder.
4. Once the Christmas travel is done, we are acquiring the pet cat. I was explaining in the comments to my last post that part of my antipathy to acquiring another pet cat is that I am really enjoying our nice furniture and don't want it destroyed. When we got our previous cats, we were late teens and living in squalid rentals and all our furniture was the garbage furniture our family was getting rid of. We never tried to train the cats not to scratch stuff. Frankly it never occurred to us. Everything we had was pretty much trash for years and years. We did not look ahead and think, "One day we will be grown up people living in nice circumstances with nice things we do not want destroyed" and train our cats for that future day. To be fair, they basically died right as we reached that day--we were very late bloomers--and I don't regret any of our time with them, bless their destructive hearts.
So, I am hoping that some of what I am dreading in getting a cat can be mitigated by actually training this new one. Anyone have any training advice or recs for toys, scratching posts, etc. that might be helpful?
5. So after that disastrous appointment with the rheumatologist, I have been unsurprisingly pretty depressed and second guessing everything pretty hard. I decided that maybe she's right and I'm just making this all up somehow or attention seeking or whatever, and if I just pretend it's not happening, it will go away. So on Sunday, Fiona and I went for a walk, and I did a very gentle 20 minute yoga session, and I have been exhausted and in pretty severe pain ever since then. LOL Like everywhere, not just places the yoga would have impacted, so I don't think I actually hurt myself with the yoga. I really, truly don't know what to do anymore. I am tired and hurting and really depressed about it, and I don't think I have the emotional resources to try to keep pursuing a diagnosis and treatment at this point. It's so time consuming and expensive and also just emotionally deflating to get my hopes up only to be told that the doc has no answers for me or worst case scenario to be met dismissively or hostilely. Tl;dr I am sad and I don't like it.
6. Josh is having an endoscopy today so say a prayer or light a candle or do whatever you do to release the kraken of goodness our way, please!
aphrodite_mine (The Yonder Side of Sass and Texas) that I'm looking forward to reading. <32. Fiona got her first dose of the COVID vaccine yesterday. Whoo!
3. Another colleague retired yesterday. Our numbers are dwindling pretty rapidly. On the upside, I think that means the possibilities for overload money are looking pretty good for spring semester, and we will need to bank as much of that as possible because if I get elected chair of Senate for next academic year, I will not be eligible for overload money during that academic year since the chair gets a course release. And that will make paying for that year of Emma's college a lot harder.
4. Once the Christmas travel is done, we are acquiring the pet cat. I was explaining in the comments to my last post that part of my antipathy to acquiring another pet cat is that I am really enjoying our nice furniture and don't want it destroyed. When we got our previous cats, we were late teens and living in squalid rentals and all our furniture was the garbage furniture our family was getting rid of. We never tried to train the cats not to scratch stuff. Frankly it never occurred to us. Everything we had was pretty much trash for years and years. We did not look ahead and think, "One day we will be grown up people living in nice circumstances with nice things we do not want destroyed" and train our cats for that future day. To be fair, they basically died right as we reached that day--we were very late bloomers--and I don't regret any of our time with them, bless their destructive hearts.
So, I am hoping that some of what I am dreading in getting a cat can be mitigated by actually training this new one. Anyone have any training advice or recs for toys, scratching posts, etc. that might be helpful?
5. So after that disastrous appointment with the rheumatologist, I have been unsurprisingly pretty depressed and second guessing everything pretty hard. I decided that maybe she's right and I'm just making this all up somehow or attention seeking or whatever, and if I just pretend it's not happening, it will go away. So on Sunday, Fiona and I went for a walk, and I did a very gentle 20 minute yoga session, and I have been exhausted and in pretty severe pain ever since then. LOL Like everywhere, not just places the yoga would have impacted, so I don't think I actually hurt myself with the yoga. I really, truly don't know what to do anymore. I am tired and hurting and really depressed about it, and I don't think I have the emotional resources to try to keep pursuing a diagnosis and treatment at this point. It's so time consuming and expensive and also just emotionally deflating to get my hopes up only to be told that the doc has no answers for me or worst case scenario to be met dismissively or hostilely. Tl;dr I am sad and I don't like it.
6. Josh is having an endoscopy today so say a prayer or light a candle or do whatever you do to release the kraken of goodness our way, please!
