I have been sick, so that is why I didn't blog the last couple of days - not much to say. I worked from home on Wednesday for a few hours and then watched some stuff we had on our DVR for years, something called Inside the Vatican that was really interesting, about people who are not the Pope who work there, and then Pope Benedict's funeral. The first recording started with the Liturgy of the Eucharist, and a woman was doing a play-by-play like it was a baseball game, and then they would interrupt to interview someone who was some sort of acknowledged expert in Catholicism. At one point they had the running commentary and the interview going at the same time. It was nothing like watching Pope John Paul II's funeral: I had asked for the next day off weeks earlier to do "spring cleaning," but I kept thinking, "Who am I kidding? I should just work," but something kept stopping me, and so I could watch the funeral in real time with some other people without having to worry about getting up early the next day. That one was so beautiful. There was a second recording the date of Pope Benedict's funeral, and I thought, "Ah ha, here is the Liturgy of the Word! I will get to hear the readings and the homily!" since that was so moving during the previous papal funeral... but it was more coverage AFTER the funeral so I just deleted it without watching it.
Yesterday there was a big financial professional conference on campus that I was looking forward to attending with my colleague, but I just called in for the whole day and watched the final spring concert put on by the band director who was at this university for like forty years. Maybe fifty? He started young and retired old. It was a Public Television thing, so now and then they'd interrupt to say how if you donated, you could get the DVD of the concert AND a bobblehead of the band director. Of course, this deal is from six years ago, so it's probably no longer any good. I did feel well enough to attend the Union meeting by Zoom in the evening, and then afterwards I watched an online lecture about how plants can communicate and maybe even see. The author was in Puerto Rico, so you could hear little tree frogs behind her - that was a charming touch.
Today I still felt crappy but did work from home all day. I had a meeting that ran long, so I had to duck out to recycle the tea Travalon had so kindly prepared for me, and I got back just as they were all logging off, so half of them were gone already. Before work, Travalon gave me my gift, "Ivan."
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