Welcome to Thursday

In which our heroine continues fuming about the hubby's boss, who has a chronic case of rectal-cranial inversion.

Robyn called By from Santa Fe after 5 last night, needing catalogs. Correction: needing catalogs THAT NIGHT, but willing to settle for sometime today. So By ended up spending an hour assembling them, then to the Post Office, where they won't guarantee next-day delivery on things sent after 6pm, then to UPS, who suck in general, but will guarantee delivery if you pay enough. And, Robyn didn't leave enough checks for By to do this, so he paid for it out of our checking account, and she owes us $50. Grrrrr.

It's hard for me to not be grumpy about her complaining about By's "lack of dedication", when she pays so little attention to the business. I really do think that most of the problems she's had with sales can be tied to her own handling of the business--inadequate advertising, and poorly timed (a week before the yearly show is too late to send out invites, IMHO), delivering commissions late, and coming in way over bid on projects. And that's just what I can think of pre-caffeine. *shakes head*

Edited to add: Nearly forgot to mention that in last night's phone call, he established that he'd likely have to pull a very long day on Friday (get in early to tend the dog and wait for the rental co to show up with wedding stuff, and stay late to babysit the rehearsal), and be there early to tend the dog, then stay for the wedding and take-down on Saturday, because Robyn didn't know if she'd be back in time. Let's see, the show's over, she's tooting around New Mexico enjoying herself...no, she probably won't be back in time.

Oh, and did I mention that the person who's supposed to be tending the dog hasn't been? Grrrrrr.
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Let's see...my work day...got a bunch of daffs planted yesterday before it started raining, then we puttered the rest of the day. Got a start on grading tests for Donna, will finish that today. Some of her students amaze me--if you consistently score 26% OR LOWER on the lab quiz, wouldn't you withdraw from the class? She's got three of those that haven't. Not sure what else is on the work agenda today--grading, a little spraying, probably making a wish list from the T&M catalog (seeds). Guess I ought to check the rain gauge, see if we got enough rain to make outside work unlikely.

No knitting last night, too wound up. Did try a couple of practice books out of the new bookbinding text. Will have to do more of that once my project list is smaller.

Tonight it stay-at-home-and-get-quality-time night, 'cuz By was so late getting home from J & C's last night, and with work and all, I won't get to see him until next Monday.

Cat!!! Go look at this!!!!!

We have got to knit this skirt once we finish the peacock plumes pieces. Must, must, must. I'm sure I can redo-the sizing for our hips, just basic math, can't be that hard. It'd be very nice to wear over one of the rayon skirts or playdresses from Dharma next summer.

In case anyone's curious...

The rain gauge out in the rose garden says we got 1.75" last night. Guess we won't be doing outdoor things today.

Venting

I graded lab ID quizzes for Donna today, and just have to bitch about some of the consistently missed answers. This'll mean much more to my plant geek friends. The rest of you, well, just google for pics of the varieties, you'll get the idea.

Anyway...venting.....

Because so many of the class have been mixing up the same flowers through the entire semester, Donna put most of the troublesome ones on the last quiz at the same time. They were: french marigold, calendula, garden mum, zinnia.

Now, would those who are even remotely familiar with these flowers tell me if I'm nuts? Because I just can't see how people can NOT distinguish between them. They look different, have very different odors, wildly different foliage and stems.....I'm just confused as to how half the damn class got all four mixed up. Not only that, but some of the brighter pennies in class gotthose four mixed up with things not on the quiz, like goldenrod and asters. In what universe does calendula even remotely resemble the common native goldenrod??? Grrrr.

They never want me to teach herbaceous, that's all I can say. These kids think Donna's being soooo horrible to them, they don't want to see what it'd be like if I taught it. Because I'd teach it the way I was taught, and no being nice about it, no dumbing it down, no cutting out the difficult or rare things (so, 200 plants instead of 140).

I say again, grrrr.