Yesterday I didn't blog because there was very little to say: I worked from home because of my cold and once again was unable to meet up with Mr. Icon. I did forget to mention that last Wednesday, as Hardingfele and I walked at lunch, we heard a train. Now if I hear a train while walking with Seabird, she doesn't get excited about it, but Hardingfele got just as excited as I did, so we hurried to where we could see the train pass by. This is somewhat relevant to today, because I did feel well enough to go into work and found a check waiting for me. This was the emergency invoice I had a few hours to create, and they sure paid it promptly. The check deposit for the university is way on the far side of campus, so I went to catch the campus bus, but I must have just missed it because the bus stops now have a screen informing you when the next bus will arrive, and it said not for thirteen more minutes. As far as I know, the buses come every fifteen minutes during the summer (every five during the school year), so I just walked. There is a walking/biking path that goes on a bridge over a major thoroughfare, and there are train tracks next to it on the bridge, so I have always thought it would be cool to be on the bridge when a train came by. I dropped off the check and was heading to the nearest campus bus stop when I heard a train horn, and I said to myself, "You'd be a fool to pass up this opportunity!" I went back up to the path on the bridge, and an engine with no cars soon came from the other direction. I didn't make a video, but wow, was it close to me! By then I had nearly all my steps for the day, so I continued on the path to another campus bus stop, which said the next bus would be there in five minutes. It's a loop, so I was hoping the bus driver didn't notice that I rode almost the whole loop, but really, would he even care?
Between that errand that took over an hour and a webinar about the new system in the afternoon, there wasn't a lot of time to get "real" work done. The good news is that things are much quieter now, so I've almost caught up. The webinar was scheduled for two hours, and I slept through most of the first hour, and then the second hour started with a question and answer session, but when they ran out of questions, they ended things about forty minutes early. Excellent, because I could use that time. I'm plant sitting for yet another faculty member this summer, so I had to check on her plants, and the big aloe plant in the TA office, and of course my own plants. One of her plants had fallen over, but it looks okay. Hopefully we all make it through the summer alive and well!
I have a very important announcement to make:
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