Thursday

I have spent the day at home alternating between such activities as planning my summer course, yard work, receiving dirt with 15% compost from Farmer Bob (which I paid dearly for), attending to the cats (Dora puked up all that dry wheat grass she loves chomping on, and Olivia has mostly slept all day), making a healthy (though not terribly appetizing) lunch, feeling throw-uppy, talking (via email) to my department chair about my fall teaching options, talking on the phone with my sister, and wondering if I should join Olivia in my bed for a nap. She really is a great role model for someone like me. Though I think I may opt to sit in my lawn chair on the deck now that the sunshine has reached the backyard. It's a really nice warm day.

Other plans include going to Target to check out the Snoodle Original and maybe buy some cute socks, followed by helping Adrienne unpack her moving boxes, which turned out to be a pretty fun thing to do last night.

Meanwhile, Dirk is on a train to Pennsylvania. He will be on that train until 1:30 pm tomorrow, and he got on it at 5:15 this morning. That's a whole day and a half on a train. He does have a sleeper car, and he brought an oversized beach towel for a blanket. He also has an exorbitant amount of PB&J sandwiches in his possession, among other snacks. Every time I think of Dirk on the train for an excessively long period of time, with a towel for a blanket and lots of sticky sandwiches, I just laugh and laugh. It sounds so hysterically funny to me that this is his idea of fun, and I am so glad that I did not have to do it too. I imagine that he truly will enjoy his ride. God bless him!