Bad and good

So, I've been kind of bad in not posting here very much, partly from the end-of-semester business and partly because I've done a lot of posting elsewhere. In the holiday season I write drabbles (little 100-word pieces of fiction) by request for online friends, and this year I've written 26 of them which I'm posting one per day this month. So that's the good thing, to be giving something that I hope makes the recipient happy.

Today I need to finish wrapping some gifts so I can mail them off Saturday morning, if possible. Once I've finished teaching (last day, hurrah) I'll dash home to do that, because my spouse's departmental holiday party is tonight and I said I'd go. It's a bit of a pain to make an extra 3-hour round trip for that, but at least he's driving. We also need to write our holiday letter this weekend, and I want to buy and put up the tree; three weeks or so is long enough to have one for me (it comes down on January 1), so I hadn't done it earlier, and I don't have any class prep now of course so there's time to buy and decorate.

Winding down the semester

It's the week before Thanksgiving, unbelievably. Which means four more weeks of classes, and then finals week. Ack! Where did the time disappear to! I have many things yet to be done this semester, including needing to finish writing an article as well as the class prep. And Thanksgiving will be eaten by a trip to Seattle to my father-in-law; not that I mind terribly visiting him or anything, but I hate traveling for that holiday. It's always immensely crowded and busy at the airports and it makes getting needed work finished terribly difficult.

*sighs* I'll manage, of course, but suddenly my schedule seems far busier than I would like!