One of the weird benefits to my trying to "work" every day is I still look forward to the weekend (and dread Sunday night).  Yesterday's work was the UUFA directory.

After I got up, walked the dog, and dropped Ray off at UGA, I went to the Fellowship. I was supposed to meet the man from Olan Mills (Tom) at noon, but I figured I could work there for a couple hours before he came. The office is normally closed on Friday, but there were some men there painting it. It was pretty cold in the building, because they had the doors open. So finding a comfortable place to work was something of a challenge. In the sunny window in the sanctuary turned out to be the best place. I reviewed my information about the directory so I would be ready for him. Then I heated up my chili in the microwave and had lunch. I was almost done when he got there promptly at 12. I showed him to my warm corner and he advised me on how to turn in the layouts we need. It is so much work! Not unpleasant work, but I seem to get myself into these things.

After the meeting, I went to the library to work for a bit. I applied for a job as a Secretary at the USDA. I spent most of my time trying to arrange the pictures I have on to pages. But I don't seem to currently own a layout program. I thought it might be easier to do by hand, so printed them all out, but I appear to be a computer person now. On the computer, you can change the sizes very easily. I am going to try MS Word; Ray thinks the newsletter template may work for what I am doing.

After I picked Ray up, we went to Kroger. The traffic on Friday afternoons is worse than usual. Kroger was pretty crowded too. It was about 4:40 when we left and we had a Geology Dept. reception to go to at 5, so we just went there instead of going home. It is the thing I dislike most about where we live--it's just a little too far to stop off conveniently. We try to minimize extra trips. Our groceries sat in the car and our dog had to wait for his dinner. Mostly, I hated missing the late afternoon sunlight.

We were the first ones at the reception. There is a visiting professor this semester, from Berkeley. His wife talked some about the differences between Georgia and California--finding all the religious stations on the radio driving here was eye-opening, for instance. I enjoyed talking with Mike's wife, Todd, and some other people. We left a little after 7. Ray didn't want any supper after eating nuts and cheese. I had a piece of steak my Mom had brought me from her restaurant dinner Wednesday night. And we had our ice cream.

We were switching back and forth between Monk and Get Smart (I had not seen the "new" version, with Steve Carrell; it was surprisingly good, with occasional flashes of Don Adams and Barbara Feldman, although the Chief was quite different) and I was dozing too. Went to bed at 10 and slept until 5:30. Pretty good. Woke up with the moon in my eyes again and having weird dreams I couldn't quite remember. Started agonizing over Meredith and McKenzie again, so I got up instead.