Last teaching week for the year

I went to bed way late because I was dreading the start of the week. Oops.

But then the day went better than expected, I had more energy than I thought and even did some publishing stuff.

I finished the mittens for my mother-in-law:

I wanted to start the next pair (my mother decided I would knit some for her sister) but only managed to grab all the supplies. I hope the partial ball of yarn I have will be enough. For those of you who actually pay attention to knitwear: yes, this is the exact same pattern and color as the ones I made for my mother but these are a size smaller.

I did the breakfast dishes and took a shower and ate lunch:

This pasta e fagioli was delicious even though I am not a big fan of the added chili marinade.

I taught my students while wearing a mask and had flashbacks to the pandemic. I had almost forgotten about the way the mask pinches my ears, especially in connection with the glasses.

I hook the glasses through the mask’s rubber bands so they don’t fall off which makes things a little worse. But I’d rather have painful ears than my glasses crashing to the floor. I also almost forgot how the mask makes my progressive lenses sit just a tad higher which makes everything nice and blurry. But then I’m all blurry all the way at the moment because I need new glasses.

I ate dinner and read, and then played some Genshin Impact for too long before finally starting this post and doing the dishes. I really hope to get to bed earlier tonight but then I always do.