My wife got me the perfect Valentine’s Day card.
I’m afraid I got her nothing. I had a severe flare-up of my back injury, and spent much of Valentine’s Day lying in an emergency room experiencing such intense agony that I was certain that I was going to die. Now it’s the day after, I didn’t die, but I’m now covered in patches and doped up on Valium. My response to my recovery was “Oh no, now I’ve got to prepare a week’s worth of lectures that include a whole lot of in-class problems, and I’ve got to make sure the lab crosses are on track,” so I’ve spent Sunday morning frantically updating lectures and sending notes to the students under the assumption that today was Monday and I needed to be ready for my 12:45 class.
I somehow moved from imminent fear of death to imminent fear of missing an hour of class is a serious long term concern over priorities to work over in my brain. I’ll put it on my list of things to get done this week. After I get through classes and labs.
How does that work?
Tomorrow, Monday is Presidents’ Day, a national holiday.
A lot of state and Federal workers get the day off and the stock markets are closed.
Tomorrow is President’s Day. I’ll be wearing black.
Meaning of life = 42.
Elaboration needed.
Douglas Adams paraprhrased and citing.
About the Valentine’s Day card. – “It’s a trap!”
Tomorrow is Presidents Day, and the loca activism group has scheduled a protest in front of the capitol building. I will be there! It might help to know that some 600 students walked out of high schools and junior highs here (Cheyenne, WY) to protest the presence of ICE in the community and stand up for their classmates.
Yesterday was Valentine’s Day. It was also Spay Day at the animal shelter vet clinic. Now that they have 2 vets, they’ve been doing 2 spay days (1 for cats and 1 for dogs) and a vaccine clinic every month. I spent yesterday cleaning instruments and wrapping packs. Like, ALL day, arriving at 7:45 in the morning and leaving just after 5.
PZ, you are getting pummeled lately! But that’s a fantastic card from your wife, and I’m sure she understood hat you were in know shape to reciprocate. Caring about each other is kind of what people do in lasting relationships.
Given the gender of the web maker, if the card comes from the female in a couple, I would guess it translates to “you’re caught in my web,” which seems a bit forward even if it’s a brutal truth.
Dear PZ, you have demonstrated how diligent you are many times over. However, you have a new ‘crop’ of students in your class. Since few, if any, are repeating, why don’t you just use a past lecture instead of agonizing to create a new one? The same applies to tests.
Your most important task is TAKING CARE OF YOURSELF and regaining your health. Please make this the highest priority.