I'm With You, Karal Lynne. It Was a Friday, and After a Double Header Softball Game and the 5th Week of Summer Programs, I'm Exhausted, Too.

Okay, Saturday. I see the weekend agenda ahead and I agree. I just want to lie in bed and read. Ah, but it's still summer, there's plenty to do, and we still have one more week of CWP summer programs. Besides, after the week ended, you had a double-header softball game, and it looks to be the same next week, too. Inhale. Exhale. We got this. 

A special shout-out to Colin Hosten and Michael DeStefano, who continue to lead The Who Do You Think You Are: College Essays and Other Narratives young adult literacy lab. They are phenomenal, and the 15 essays that resulted from the week of work is out of this world. I couldn't be prouder.

As for the softball game, I played first base (I'm mediocre - as softball gloves are not the pocket I was used to in my younger years and, gosh darn it, I have a hernia...I can't catch the ball if it is whizzed at me below the knees and at my ankle. I can catch, but I can't dive). I popped out once, and had three hits, helping our team to score (a record), even if we still lost. We had fun and that matters most. 

A couple of parties on deck for Saturday, as well as Sunday, plus a much-needed writing marathon, not to mention indoor cleaning. The Fall-like temperatures are on our side, and I'm thankful that it's July, but the humidity has disappeared. 

The lawn is mowed already, and I need to wake-up and focus on my other agenda items. Let me eat a bagel and get some coffee. I shall be good then.

Here's to Companion Animal Hospital's softball team. We have not one a game, but we are vicious (at least in our imagination).