I caught some kind of bug last week that left me feeling pretty gross from Friday through Tuesday (when I stayed home sick), so now I'm about a week behind on my pre-holiday to do list. Which means no Christmas cards this year (again). But I did actually buy cards to send out, so maybe I'll start addressing them extra early next year. It also means having to do the bulk of my Christmas shopping this weekend, or rather, tonight, since I have writer's group on Saturday and the weather may be too nasty on Sunday to do much running around. I would much rather have nasty weather this weekend than when I'm trying to fly home on Thursday, though.

At work things have finally slowed down. After years of not having much going on after Thanksgiving, we had a program plus six or seven classes to tape, which lasted through the first week of December, plus we're now administering this university wide grant program which had its application deadline last Friday. I took advantage of the relative quiet to start putting together the poster and webpages for next semester's programming -- which is when I realized that we are doing sixteen individual programs. Good thing my raise and promotion finally came through, or I might... okay, I probably wouldn't have quit, but I would have been extra cranky once registration starts in January. Then I probably would have snapped, and they would have had to fire me. We're supposed to be getting a temp to deal with the tedium that is maintaining all the program registration lists, too, so that will be even better.

Anyway, I hope everyone else is doing better with their to-do lists, holiday related or not. I also hope those of you in Oklahoma can actually read this by now, since I know a lot of you didn't have electricity earlier in the week (and several of those that did, like my parents, didn't have internet because the cable lines went down). I appreciate you getting the nasty storm out of the way before I come home this year.