Day 6 - 272 -- First Day Back

Today was the first day back to campus since the cold began. I took a taxi up in the morning and planned to walk down the hill home in the afternoon. The many, many stairs up to the top floor of the building took some work and a few pauses along the way. Miraculously, the computer connected to all network drives and the printers. Of course, this was the day an appointment with IT was booked to help figure out the issue. After lunch, I walked to the library and found that I could renew one of the intra-library loans that I haven't read as closely as necessary for one writing project. <yay>. Next was a guest lecture for a third year course. I was feeling rather foggy, but things went well. I do miss being in the classroom. After the IT tech visit, I unpacked a number of boxes. There is a noticable space where there once were boxes! Still, many are left to unpack -- but this will be done in the near future. Walking home went fairly well, with just a few moments of rubbery legs along the way. At home I found a bag between the doors. I laughed when I looked inside. It was a thank you gift of a soup mix. Today was perfect for soup. In fact, that is what was on tap for supper. The dry mixes are made by a local business and contain everything in lovely layers. I look forward to making this soup -- an others -- over the coming cooler days.

Overall, the day went well -- better than expected given the fatigue of late. I've come to expect negative results with many recent events. Working to see the positives can be difficult when things trend in a different direction. Today, was just one of those days. Not everything went perfectly, but there were more positives than less than positives in the day. <smile>

In my head I heard three words repeatedly through the day. They comprise the title of a song -- granted about something very different than my day, but the psychological nature of the phrase fit my thoughts. Love the iconic voice here. Enjoy!

Maybe I'm Amazed -- Paul McCartney