Yikes, way too much time in meetings!!!

Yikes, very scary regarding Toddson. Glad to hear she's being well taken care of!

Fingers crossed your case of Covid is light on symptoms, Sheryl!

I've got 5¼ hours of meetings today.

That's abusive!

I'm off to run in light rain, and then I am taking Emmett & Kalena (hereinafter E&K) to breakfast at the Blue Danube cafe. It is my intent to make regular stops there with them and slowly work our way through the entire, extensive menu.

After that I'll take them grocery shopping, showing them my places, and then Emmett will join me as we head off to the furniture store to pick up our new Loveseat, then to the warehouse to pick up our new rug: [link]

So we're going to have a Loveseat and a Settee in the Vivian and Lily Charles Drinking Parlor: [link]

Hec, I adore the rug. Will the furniture be in that shade of blue?

It's good to hear that Toddson is being well looked after.

Sheryl, I'm so sorry about your catching the plague. May it go easily.

Laura, he was due a freak-out, it will pass. Hoping the surgery was a non-event!

Tom, that is officially too many meetings.

Ooh, pretty

refrigerator repair is here. lots of ice behind the panel at the back of the freezer. He's hoping it is just frozen up due to a broken fan or something.

CROSS FINGERS.

5 1/2 hours of meetings sounds about average for me. Today I only have 4 hours and it feels great! Except I've been out for three days so all of my non-meeting time is spent catching up.

Update on this stupid class I hate - there are two mini-papers due in addition to the big final paper. On the first one, I tried to reference as many of the readings as possible, use quotes to make connections, and apply some critical reasoning. That paper earned me a D+. (With no feedback given as to how what I'd submitted missed the mark.) (And, like, whatever, it's barely worth anything as a percentage of the total grade for the class.) (But still. WHAT THE FUCK.)

For the second one, I decided fuck it, I'm not investing more energy than I need to for this, and turned in what I thought was 3 pages of word vomit/ranting with a handful of obligatory references to the readings just for kicks. 10/10, A, feedback that this was "superb writing" and that he hopes I bring this level of "wit and candor" to the final paper. So I guess that takes some of the pressure off for the final, but again I have to ask WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCKING FUCK is going on with this class and why do I have to put up with it.

Hec, I adore the rug. Will the furniture be in that shade of blue?

It'll be kind of an eclectic mix. As Vivian and Lily's house reflected their years of travel with the Darling Mermaid Darlings and collected things that caught their eye.

I was sharing pieces from the store with Ple as we were there. Prompting her to gasp "Furniture porn! What is this place?"

It's a family owned furniture place that's been in SF since 1948 and they're the oldest Stickley dealer in California.

So lots of tempting, beautiful Stickley pieces: [link]

That is bewildering, Jess. Ugh. Also ugh to so many meetings, but that's more my personal feeling; if that works for you more power to you!

Grrrr, Jess, how infuriating. It really takes some doing for a professor to take all the joy out of a 10/10 with glowing feedback, but it sounds like this one managed it.