Got home Friday, with enough daylight (and energy) left to mostly unload, at least the essentials. Yesterday I restocked on food and did laundry. We’ll see about today.
What are the good things about being home?
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* sleeping in a a larger and slightly softer bed
*private bathroom
*good shower
*yard for dogs so they don’t have to be walked 2-3 times/day
*computer is set up at all times
*cool weather (no need for AC here 
)
*can lounge around in my bathrobe til all hours (that won’t last, sigh)
*TV
What are the not-so-good things about being home?
*yard for dogs so they don’t have to be walked 2-3 times/day
*can lounge around in my bathrobe til all hours
*TV
All those things mean I’ll get more sedentary, less physically and mentally active.
Also, the prospect of having to return to work is creeping in on my consciousness. Political and economic reality is harder to ignore (we vote next week on whether or not to accept what amounts to a supposedly temporary 9.5% pay cut. It’s couched in terms of a furlough, but comes with no reduction in workload for faculty–so it’s a pay cut. Yuck. The idea is to save some jobs, but the administration is making no guarantees on that. Which considering the legislature and governor have yet to tell them what we actually face in terms of budget is sorta understandable, but still unsettling, since it means we don’t really know what we are voting for or against. And it’s interesting that upper management, with their bloated salaries, are apparently not sharing in the pay cut.)
But on balance, it’s good to be home. Not that I’m not already planning, not to say plotting, my next getaways. And I’m beginning to obsess about where to go when I retire. I’ve homed in on a few places in 4 different states–but I may open it up again later, who knows. I have a few years yet before any firm decisions must be made.
