The Final Week

Well we made it. It’s time for finals. It’s hard to believe the semester is at a close. Even though it’s early it still can’t already be the end of November. Domino days falling one by one. It feels like just yesterday we were posing for the first day of school photos. Where did the time go? Maybe the collective anxiety on campus ate it all up. I mean, this fall passed in a blink of an eye. It was also relatively pain free. Our numbers remained much lower than I expected, until recently. From the get-go I was expecting things to not run so smoothly. I’m glad to have been proven wrong.

Once this week passes the students go home for over 2 months. That’s a winter break I’m jealous that I never had while in college. What will the campus be like in that time. On a normal semester when the students leave its SO slow. We twiddle our thumbs. I’m trying to imagine 2 months of that and the boredom of it all is maddening. I’m considering taking every Monday & Friday off for the month of December. Not joking.

I guess I should mention that the stores are running out of toilet paper again. Paper towels. Napkins… Yeah, that’s happening. What, people didn’t learn the first go round? Of course not. I’ve said it before when this all began and I’ll say it again now. A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it.

Not much excitement at work. I feel like I was basically working for Admissions. I helped transport over a thousand pounds of junk mail for them throughout the week. Good times. After lots of cuss words the facilities guys finally put together the Christmas tree. We don’t get out traditional tree lighting, it’s going virtual, but I think I’ll still go see it in person. From a distance. With a mask. Maybe… I finished off the work week with glitter all over my a** & chair. Great send off.

On a very random side note: people that can’t whistle. I feel sorry for people that can’t whistle. It’s a small joy, to whistle a tune that you love. To just whistle a tune constructed from your own mind. It’s soothing. And these poor people are missing that. Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah. Whistle that and tell me it doesn’t elevate your mood? (Do you even know that tune?). Whistling is essential to my song writing process. Lots of melodies arrive from a random whistle. Not to mention, these poor unfortunate souls don’t get the pleasure of completely and utterly annoying their spouses with show tune jingles and other god awful ear worms. It’s a truly satisfying thing to do to the one you love. These poor folk that can’t whistle…

Horror Film

Since I had the night to myself I figured I’d watch a horror movie that I’ve never seen and would probably be too disturbing for Bekah. Lord of Illusions. Clive Barker. The man that made Hellraiser. This was a movie I caught a glimpse of at the age of 14 and quickly turned away from. The imagery was… disturbing. Graphic. All things f***ed. I’d forgotten all about it until today, Friday. Why not give it a try. Eat some pizza. Yeah…. not a movie to eat with. I remembered why I had turned it off as a wee teen. It’s good. A nice film noir horror!!! Disgusting. All around an unpleasant evening.

Horror Film

Jalapeño

Another breakfast bowl. I cooked some pork sausage links, some seasoned potatoes. For the eggs I threw in some fresh pico del gallo.

Pot roast. Comfort bowl.

Armidillo eggs with grilled okra. Cleaning out the freezer meal # 1.

BBQ pork chop with some baked beans. Cleaning out the freezer meal #2. Pretty blah looking meal. It was perfectly cooked and tasty.

Croissant egg cheese bacon sandwich. This came from campus. This thing was amazing!!! It had no right tasting as good as it did. I skipped lunch on this day. Didn’t need it. And for under $4 it’s a real steal.

Hoisin tuna steak, asparagus & rice noodles. Cleaning out the freezer meal #3. I’ve done hoisin chicken. Hoisin steak. Hoisin pork tenderloin. Why am I just now doing hoisin tuna? It was so good and so simple. The rice noodles I tossed with rice vinegar, soy sauce & cilantro. Winged it and won. Bekah was impressed. Said it was like watching an episode of Chopped.