It’s Monday morning, and I don’t want to move from my couch today. I’d rather just stay here and do nothing all day long. Sadly, it’s a work day. I’ve considered calling in sick because I don’t feel well this morning, but I probably won’t. I’ll reassess how I feel a few more minutes and see if I want to go in today or not. If I am going to work, I’ll have to get up, take a shower, and get dressed. I don’t want to do any of that.

Fridays are usually my work from home day, but I’d planned to take this Friday off because I expected a reaction to the Covid vaccine. Yesterday, I had gone to my doctor to get my flu and Covid vaccines, but when I got there, I found out that they had not been able to get in the Covid vaccine. I was a bit aggravated because no one had contacted me to let me know that they did not have the vaccine, so I could schedule it somewhere else earlier. A lot of places have run out of the vaccine, and it was difficult to find a place that still had the Covid vaccine. I finally found a place but won’t be able to get the vaccine for two more weeks.

Since I wasn’t able to take the Covid vaccine, I decided to work from home as I was originally scheduled to do today. I have some work to do for my class. Their midterms were due yesterday, so I have to finish grading those and get my lectures ready for next week. Needless to say, I have enough to keep me busy.

I do not get a holiday for Indigenous Peoples Day/Columbus Day. I have to work, but I’m moving a bit slowly this morning. I hope everyone has a good week.

Even though I am working from home today, I have a lot of work to do. I have to prepare for my lecture for class next week and make up the their midterm exam. Creating a midterm might not sound like a hard task, but it’s will be posted online for them to do over the next week, and the system we use is not exactly intuitive. It might take me most of the day to figure it out and get it done correctly.  Also, I am going out to dinner with a friend tonight, which will be a nice relaxing time to decompress after the stress of this week.

It seems that things at work are finally settling back down. I looked at my calendar this morning, and other than a very short meeting today, nothing else is on my schedule. Other than my usual Tuesday and Thursday class, I don’t have a class scheduled for another professor for the rest of the month. In fact, other than some regular weekly meetings, my calendar is pretty empty. Next week I have some doctor appointments, my schedule is open. It’s nice to take it easy in the morning and not be rushed to get ready and get to the office early to have enough time to get everything done.

It’s Monday again, However, on this Monday, I have the day off because I worked on Saturday. I got up and fed Isabella, now I’m going back to bed. Of course this means that when I wake up again, Isabella will try to trick me into feeding her again. It never works, but she always tries anyway.

Have a wonderful day, everyone!

I’m not sure what I’ll do today. I have the day off to make up for some extra time I worked. I also have Monday off because I have to work tomorrow. I know I need to go to the bank and the grocery store, but those are just errands. What I’d really like to do today is go for a hike. The weather is cool and the leaves are changing. It should be really beautiful where I like to go hiking. I don’t know if I’ll get the motivation to actually go. I prefer to hike in the early morning shortly after daylight. I guess we’ll just have to see how motivated I am. I’ve been awake since 4 am; not because of Isabella, but a strange dream and I couldn’t go back to sleep. So, this morning, I’ll do one of two things: go for a hike or go back to bed.

This week should somewhat return to normal at work. I still have a lot to catch up on with how busy I’ve been the last few weeks, but for the most part, I should be back to my regularly scheduled program. I hope that’s the case anyway. I’ll be at the museum by myself today, so with no one to interrupt me, I’m hoping I can get a lot done.

I have been so tired lately, even Isabella has noticed and has let me sleep later than normal. Granted, she never lets me sleep past 5:30 am, but that’s better than usual.

I love to cook. It’s one of my stress relievers. However, if I had Pietro Boselli cooking in my kitchen, especially dressed in this (or with even less clothing or hell, even fully clothed), I’d be content to never cook again for as long as Pietro wants to do the cooking.

I really did not want to get out of bed this morning. Isabella woke me a little after 4 am, and I got up to feed her. Then, I promptly went back to bed. I slept until my alarm went off at 5 am at which time I hit the snooze button. When the alarm went off again, I begrudgingly got out of bed. 

After being in the classroom all day for the past two weeks, I have to get caught up on my regular work and the ton of emails waiting on me. Other than two tours that I will do this morning, I am free to catch up. 

Not much will get done tomorrow. I teach my regular class, then I’ll be out of the office the rest of the day because I have to have some dental work done. My dentist is a very nice man, but I hate going.