Today, a Friday, I Am Beginning with an Ending (Last Night, a Thursday), Simply Because I Need to Channel Calm in the Chaos

The best celebration I can offer is that at least I'm not teaching at this second, and there's space to do the work that needs to be done. With that said, the marathon of summer has begun and I'm trying to complete tasks so I have the mind-space to establish and begin new, more important ones. My right hand companion, Karal, is tired of me on the computer and comes to rest over my shoulder.

She sees it and it exhausts her, too. 

It is, however, easier with her reminders to stop the work from time to time.

I guess right now it is an investment in all still to come. If the t's aren't dotted and the i's not crossed, then everything to follow will be disastrous.

Okay, I'm sipping my coffee, making my lists, praying that the people I need to respond to emails and answer my questions (two weeks out) will actually clock in and respond to them. Most individuals at the University shut down in May and we don't hear from them until August, but that is not the way my job rolls.  Summer is the bonanza , and those who are on campus are working...chasing...dreaming at worlds they hope to take off to be successful. So, they're distracted.

I did set up a visit with the hernia specialist. I know there's going to be another surgery. I just have to figure out how to fit it in with a schedule that is crazy. 

And all I want to do is sit in my kayak after paddling a while, so I can look at the skyline and veg away from all the stress of land. 

It will come. It will come. It must come.

Dull post. I'm holding my breath in exhaustion.