The last two days have been kind of odd.

On Tuesday, the little sister and I went to Bloomington for the sole purpose of checking out Culvers.  This store was offered to her, but she didn’t want to have to travel that far every day.  So, she ended up training the management team.

It was really kind of neat to see all of these strangers fist bump and give her quick hugs as we wandered around the kitchen and freezer areas.  It really helped impress upon me that my sister has an entire life…   well, sort of a life… outside of the family.

Honestly, she complains about it more than anything else, but you have to care to complain.

I was with my brother for roughly 12 hours yesterday.
First, we went to the gym, then Burger King, then saw Ralph Breaks the Internet, and crowned off the evening by walking around downtown playing a silly game.

My brother is really selective about the movies he pays to watch.  If he wants to watch Ralph, we’re going to watch Ralph.  It was also really helpful that I had a free large drink and popcorn from Coke points.  It didn’t make me feel overly guilty about him paying for my ticket.

After those two days, my brain just switched off.  It was a hard shut down.  It just got to where I couldn’t think.  I was asleep by 9 instead of my customary 10 to 11.  It was a deep and dreamless sleep and lasted for about 12 hours.   That’s really unusual for me.

Sometimes, I wonder if my current pre-occupation with sleeping, in general, isn’t related to depression, as Doc S thinks, but rather to how I’m supposed to be.  After five or six years of only getting three hours – if that – a night, I don’t know what my physical limit is.

Well, it’s a theory anyway.

Today is Thanksgiving.

I’m doing my best not to let anorexia ruin it for me.
I kind of have a plan.   –  Lots of honey carrots, maybe a scope of potatoes, one or two rolls, and a decent portion of turkey.

I’m hoping that’ll satisfy everyone involved.  My family won’t become overly concerned and that I’ll somehow satisfy the weird mental balance so the scales don’t tip to not eating enough and not eating too much.

It’s actually 50ish degrees here.   I plan on going for a walk downtown to…. yes… play the silly game.  I’ve got about three more raids to go before I can advance to the next step.  What a pita time sink.   Does Niantic even care about the holidays?   If they did, it would have been a lot better to push this to earlier in the month or the first weeks of December.

My class… my class is doing okay.  It takes a lot of understanding and patience to work with 101 students.   Most of them have good intentions but haven’t quite figured out that they need to put the work in.  Just turning in any half-written pos isn’t going to earn an A.

I’ve been unusually generous and have sent several assignments back students for a redo.  Which, I don’t personally like doing.   It’s not because of the extra work, but because the course is only 7 weeks in length.
–  Sending back assignments usually leads to them being weeks late which lowers the course grade.   The students become discouraged and upset… which sometimes leads to them half-assing the assignment again or plagiarism.  Which, leads to another low grade…  if any grade at all.   I have a low tolerance for plagiarism.

So, it just becomes a vicious circle.

If you’re in college or even high school, it’s really, really, really important to do it right the first time.    The classes are not designed to coddle the student.

Okay.
It’s carrots and turkey time.

I hope everyone has a blessed day.
So mote it be.