We've had light snow for the past three nights, so it doesn't look very much like spring. I'm grateful there hasn't been enough to require shoveling, and most of the snow melted during the days. The sky today would be described as "leaden" and it's pretty chilly out (-1 °C). On the one hand, I'm not tempted to go outside which should be helpful for getting necessary things done; on the other hand, it's not very nice. Yesterday the snow was pretty and the sun was out for a while:
I was inexplicably grumpy on Tuesday, maybe because my sleep was interrupted Monday night by H coming home from work at 3:30 a.m. and then some indigestion. We had the board game group over that evening, and I played three games. The first one was new to all of us, had some very clever aspects, but was unintelligible to me. One of the other players was new to the group and I found hir irritating. The second game was an old favorite. The third game was another old favorite, but with Irritating New Person. I slept better Tuesday night, but felt almost incapacitated Wednesday. I sat at my desk feeling stupid, unmotivated, depressed, and overwhelmed as long as I could but after lunch I decided to just go home. I lay in bed, reading, until H came home and that seemed to help.
H and I had a nice outing last night with friends. We did an escape room together, our second with this group. This one was non-linear so we had an hour to solve as many puzzles as we could. We ended up with an about-average total score, but we could have done more if we'd noticed one clue that was almost in plain sight. That adventure, plus frozen yogurt, plus a late dinner with craft beer, turned into a nice evening.
Today I've finally written a quiz that was the #1 thing on my to-do list for the week. I have been working on the green chemistry bibliography all week, reading about five or six articles each day. I started with the oldest (1970) and have been working forward chronologically so I'm up to about 2004 now. These are all laboratory exercises for undergraduates. Most of them are for organic chemistry, but a few have been appropriate for courses I teach. My goal is to find at least one to implement next fall.
