Cold and rainy all day.

Our usual morning includes getting up early--usually me about 5:30 and Ray a little later--and "working" on the computer until it gets light. I check my email and my favorite blogs; sometimes I enter my food and exercise in sparkpeople.com. When it starts to get light, I put on yesterday's clothes and go for a walk. Except lately, it has been so cold and dark, I have taken to eating breakfast first and then going out, hoping it will be a little nicer after the sun has been up for a bit. Cameron doesn't mind how dark or cold it is, he wants out. So I let him out for a minute, and he comes right back, because I feed him then and he has figured out the routine...usually. We almost always have yogurt and fruit, whole grain toast and peanut butter (hopefully some homemade bread that I've taken out of the freezer the night before if there wasn't any left over). So, we don't usually leave the house until sometime after 9. Once the weather gets warm again, that will probably change.

Yesterday, it was after 10 before I dropped Ray off. Actually, we saw the city bus ahead of us and passed it. So, he caught it at the library rather than me driving him all the way to his office. UGA employees ride for free with their ID so it doesn't cost any more, and saves a little time and energy. It was pouring and cold, but we knew he would not be waiting long.

I gathered my laptop and purse and another umbrella and headed in. I was a little cold even inside, but I had a scarf I wore most of the day. I followed my usual routine, checking all the websites for jobs: UGA, Clarke County, the newspaper. I didn't find anything I could bring myself to apply for, though. I have my hopes up for the clinic coordinator position I heard about Thursday. I don't think anything has happened on that--my references would have let me know if they had been contacted, I'm pretty sure.

For some reason, I was especially hungry yesterday and noon seemed very far away, so I headed out a little early. Here is my review of where I went: Mirko Pasta.

When I got back, I started working on the directory layout, using a newsletter template from MS Word. It was going pretty well, but all the tables at the library (except the ones that have computers on them) are too high for me to be comfortable working on the laptop. My back and shoulders start to ache after awhile. I asked the reference librarian and she suggested the children's section, where the tables are lower. Although there was some background noise, apparently children talking to their mothers (and mothers saying, "shh") is not as distracting to me as adults asking the reference librarian questions. In the children's section, they have study cubicles with counters that are a good height for me. I was working next to the poster of zebras and across from the Crocodilians. There was even an outlet right there when I started running out of juice. That's where you'll find me from now on.

I left about 3:30 to pick up Ray and we headed home. I started the pot roast and then went on line to interview another student. This one I would really like to meet. For one thing, he has been restoring old buildings in Alfred, Maine with his family for many years, summers and weekends. They have also traveled to Mexico, Spain, and Russia. All these kids are so smart and enthusiastic and upbeat. I want to be like that again!

After supper, we watched TV and I knitted. I think I pretty much stayed awake until after 10.