After 7 months living at Mom and Dad's, I'm down to 4 days. There's so much to do. Mom's glucose monitoring system will be here tomorrow, and she'll be trained on it Saturday AM. We want to take in the fair, and a few other things before I leave. I've got to pack. There's a few things that I said I'd do "next week" that need to be done NOW-doctor's lists, info to lawyers etc.
One fun thing that we're working on is getting Mom back to using her e-mail, and teaching her to use Skype. Dad always helped Mom do her e-mail, because she forgets how it works and lets the computer get her flustered. I've got her Mac set up so that her "dock" only has mail and skype, and I'm sitting with her as she works on e-mail. I think she's getting it. I bought her a webcam, and she's absolutely amazed by the Skype video calls. She seems open to talking over the webcam every time, now I'll have to make the time to do it.
I feel myself pullled back into work. There's some new policies complicating a project that I'm trying to finish. Demand for the courses in my subfield is well over what we planned for. My chair is doing a great job dealing with it all and keeping me out of it-I knew nothing of this until I called about another matter and asked. I'm really looking forward to getting back to work. The break has been really good, but I'm tired of having nothing to do!
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