The New Faculty Orientation session went well. I drove up this morning, did the session, and drove home. Esteemed Spouse called with news his mother was out of surgery but they hadn't been able to see her yet. The surgeon's report was that everything went well. I'm supposed to talk with him later this evening.
I've just been sitting here listing the things I need to do before school starts, most of them connected to school itself. So much for having time to catch my breath. Just about the time I get my stomach unclenched, it's time to reclench it. (Is that a word?) I'd wanted to have time to paint, but I'm not sure that's going to happen. It's starting to look like I'll need to drive back up to Big Rapids again before the week ends. If I hadn't been worried about my mother-in-law, I might have stayed up there today to do some of this work, but I couldn't help feeling that it was more important for me to "be there" for my husband, should he need me. Of course, ideally, I would be among the family gathered in the waiting room of the hospital.
I've been sitting here now for five minutes, my fingers motionless, my brain flitting around like a hummingbird on amphetamines. Not a productive kind of thinking, just frenetic. So I'll end here.
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