"Grrr, yay, yay, yay, ya--bu-WHAT?"

Which was sort of how my weekend went. It was awesome until I heard that one of my favorite authors had died.

Friday started rough, with one frustration after another: First a professor who couldn't understand the question I was trying to ask ("If n really means n-1, then shouldn't the formula just SAY n-1? And if n sometimes means n and sometimes means n-1, then how do I know when it means what?") and then an experiment that just wouldn't work right, capped off with a delivery service that would not actually deliver mail to me. Friday? I was crabby at the WORLD. Oh, yes.

Cheered up quite a lot when I headed to Memphis for anime with whisperflight and alsafi, plus tasty Japanese food. Saturday morning we hit the Memphis Farmer's Market and the Cooper-Young Festival, then retired for more anime. I headed home Saturday evening so that I could play for UUCO on Sunday morning, then proctored a practice test in the afternoon. Productive me!

I spent Sunday evening baking cookies (which will be used to lure in my Botany students to a lecture exam study session this evening). One of these recipes BEGAN with boiling a cup of molasses, which can only be a good thing. Especially after you add sugar, buttermilk, and shortening. Not butter, mind you: Shortening. I bought a big ol' tub of lard at the grocery store yesterday.

Also, this weekend: I got worms! <3 Wait, perhaps I should rephrase. Also, this weekend: I got a tubful of red wigglers from a professor who's into vermiculture, so that I can start my own worm farm. They eat your vegetable scraps and make awesome compost. They don't smell bad, and live on your porch most of the year, and are great listeners, and never disagree with you... All right, so I'm exaggerating, but I do feel sort of like I got a tubful of new pets. Very, very low-maintenance pets. Pets that I will not be cuddling anytime soon.

Still, yay - worms! <3

STILL sad about Jordan. He'd been talking about the series he intended to write after he finished Wheel of Time. I wanted to read it. :(

House of Mews Meowathon

Oh, ALSO this weekend, I got to see the new HQ of House of Mews. The last time I was there with whisperflight it was to help them move in, and the place was still incomplete. It's a lot smaller than the old facility, but still very cute.

The House of Mews has a 5K Meowathon on November 17th, and schedule permitting, I think I'm going to run it. I've always wanted to do one of the little mini-marathons, and this is a cause that means a lot to me. Anybody interested in joining me, even tentatively?

I should say that I am NOT an accomplished jogger, and I am not going to be finishing in the top ten or anything. Last week I jogged a mile at a moderate pace, so I know I can do that. Not so long ago, I could do two miles, so I'm sure I can train back up to THAT by November. I'll try to get up to three, but I'm not sure I have jogged three miles straight in my LIFE. So if I have to walk the third, I am not going to cry. :P