Zzzzz…

Enough politics for now – I can only take so much before I want to tear my hair out, and that does no one any good.

Anyhow… I’ve been back in Denver since last Thursday. My trip home from Indiana was not terribly pleasant – I’d been up all night, since that was about the only way to catch a morning flight. Then my plane was delayed – apparently the airline knew about this the night before but didn’t think to, say, tell anyone (the Northworst moniker fits) – such that I had 12 minutes to catch a connecting flight in another concourse, booking across the airport on a torn calf muscle (and since the next flight from Detroit to Denver was oh, 7 hours later, I needed to be on that plane). Then the flight was packed, meaning up-close-and-personal time in cattle class with strangers and my wide behind, and then, well, I passed out in bed. I was in that near-hallucination mode by the time I got home.

Since then, I’ve been trying to combat post-travel lethargy and have spent a lot of time in the garden. I’m getting back on track with research today; I’ve been much less productive than I should have been this weekend. I’m hoping to make some real progress tonight, but we’ll see how it goes. I’ve also started on my German again – my pronunciation is lousy, and I’ve been putting off working on that for some time now, so I worked on that some this morning. That’s the worst thing about the research I’m doing – it makes me want to work more on my own language learning!

(In an unrelated aside, I’m currently also in the midst of baking deliciously grainy bread so that we don’t end up eating crap for breakfast like we seem to when I get too busy. Mmmm… fresh wheat bread!)