…but it ended well, and had some good parts in between.
Ran over to Bloomington/Normal and spent about 45 minutes with one of my best friends ever and mentor [nice combination] and then visited with my daughter for about an hour and a half. Went to the dentist and raced back to Champaign-Urbana for work and class.
Raced to finish my back-of-the-book index and get it turned in before class at 6:45. I guess I’m OK with it, but I really wish I had about another 20 hours to put into it. It is seriously overindexed in some areas, and seriously underindexed in others. Ah well, it was a very valuable learning experience.
On the way home after class, I stopped at Crane Alley and had 2 Guinness and some exquisite crab cakes and wrote the previous post, except for the links. Crane Alley would be near perfect with some free wireless.
Thank you to everyone who has been making comments or sending emails over the last day or so! Even though I now need to switch to other school projects that are looming [no rest for the wicked here!] I’m giving myself a "break" tomorrow. I’m going to try and get caught up with some discussions here and in a few other places.
And talking ’bout discussing, boy oh boy, do I ever have some things to say. I’ve been so busy with indexing lately that I haven’t had much time to process a lot that has been going on. But, man, did my mind ever let loose today on my hour trip over (and back, but to a lesser extent) to BN! If only I had a mind recorder, I’d have books, dissertations, and theses to publish. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to remember 80% or more of it, and what I do remember won’t be said near as eloquently. <sigh>
Nonetheless, I got me some stuff to say. Stuff about things. Stay tuned. Now it’s almost midnight and I need to take some time to calm the heck down from a busy, stressful, but joyous in many ways, day so I can get some sleep.
See you all tomorrow.
