Winds-Day

It is the middle of the week, the day we all know as Wednesday.  Some folks call it Humpday, but I just never seemed to get the hang of that little piece of the vernacular.  To me, it'll always be Wednesday...

Except that it is just a bit more now that I am one of those foolhardy "daily bloggers."  It is also the time of The Wednesday Night Bullet Post.  Let's face it...I can't be coherent and consistent with the topic all the time.

Here's your bullet points for this particular seven day stretch:

*We are having something of a Wind Chill Situation over here today.

*It is somewhere around eight thousand degrees below zero.

*No.  I am most certainly not exaggerating. And, quite frankly, I resent the implication.

*I know when I am cold.  I am very, very aware of these things.

*Temperature Sensitive...that's me.  

*Hence, I can speak with great authority regarding the current situation with the temperature.  

*No.  You do not need to bother checking the thermometer.  If we can't trust one another by now...

*Here's some alpaca.  I hear good things about alpaca and its ability to keep me warm when the mercury dips below the -1000 degree mark.

*This is the end result of having opened a most delightful gift box from Ronni:

That girl has good taste in fiber.  Very good taste, indeed!  And it spun like a dream...

*No.  The fact that this fiber sat in the stash for a year does not mean that it is not utterly fantastic.  I simply wanted to be completely sure of myself before setting wool to wheel.

*You don't mess with alpaca.  Alpaca will be good to you if you are good to the alpaca.

*I wore an alpaca sweater to school on Monday.  It was cold.

*Not as cold as today, though.  Sort of wishing I'd saved the 'paca for Wednesday Wear...

*Next Tuesday is the day I am scheduled to teach the second half of that Safety Procedures class.  18 or so teachers are supposed to come sit before me and grow ever wiser under my tutelage.

*It is also the day that we inaugurate a brand new president.  There are about a million televisions reserved all across the school district so that the kids can watch.

*This is not going to be a good day to be teaching Safety Procedures.  This fact was pointed out to me (very kindly) by one of our trainees.  

*It would have been nice to hear that my tutelage was worth missing the inauguration...but let's be realistic here.

*I'm working with The Responsible Person Who Took Charge Of Setting This Up Because She Knew Better Than To Leave It In My Hands to get the next class rescheduled.  

*I feel badly about that.  She really did do most of the work around getting this class pulled together so I can get paid to teach it.  

*It almost seemed like I was criticizing her for not remembering the whole deal with the president...

*To make matters worse, she's the one that I just learned is a fellow spinner.  We should have a certain amount of solidarity going on.

*Still...you gotta give the people what they want.  

*When a class of students sitting in a "mandatory" course turn on you, it can get really, really ugly.

*All resident felines have been informed that they will be setting aside their differences and sleeping in the bed with Mommy tonight.

*When it gets dark, it gets even colder.  (that is science...)  We could be looking at nine thousand degrees below zero if the dark and the wind chill start coordinating their assault upon us!

*And who, pray tell, is going to open the cans for them tomorrow if I succumb to frostbite in the overnight hours???????

*Should start thinking about getting an alpaca as a house pet...

Enjoy whatever may be left of your Wednesday or the memory of it in the event that you find this post after the day has dwindled down to nothing.  I shall spend what's left of mine huddling under a cat or two and doing what I can to survive until the morning.  I'm sort of regretting rinsing out that alpaca sweater I wore on Monday.  It's still wet.

Otherwise, I could have slept in it tonight.

SA