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Hi, Amanda,

I'm all excited to hear about your lunch with KB but need to accept that I may not hear from you again today. You were supposed to serve iced tea (that would have been my one criticism of your menu: bring on the wine!), but maybe you served wine after all. Either way, you might not have time to sit and write about it...the boys will be off the bus soon and you'll have dinner to put on the table so an entry here may be tabled--understandably. When you do get around to writing, please tell me where KB was living prior to moving close by you. What brought her to your neck of the woods? Have you ever been as close to her as you are JB? Or would it be akin to my sister L moves to town and you reach out, and get on like gangbusters--close by the transitive property in a way.

A little earlier when I was wondering why the hell I'm so tired again, I remembered that doing spiritual work is tiring. All this gear shifting is spiritual I think. Couple that with the fact that I ended the day with a 2 hour lab full of immature kids, and I suppose I shouldn't wonder. Honestly, A. This is a class of sophomores that last week I had to address like children. "New classroom rule. From now on, if you want to get up you need to raise your hand and ask permission. " They're 15!!! One kid is 17, trying for the third time to pass Bio. They can't sit still, they don't get that it's impolite to get up while I'm talking, to pass right by me while I'm addressing the class. Unbelievable. So this is the class I had to trust with glassware and chemicals today. For two hours. God help me.

I've been in my pjs since I got home after 3. I watched a little food network and now will watch my political shows while flipping through The Artist's Way and The 7 Healing Chakras, recalling progress I've made in the past that I will need to regain...I imagine I will flip through old manuscripts as well, as I did last night. I'll talk to W later, who is not in a good way today (things were looking up but his unemployment check didn't come today and he hasn't heard from Children's Hospital), and I'll probably head upstairs early. Tomorrow I start the day with a 2 hour lab, a group not as misbehaved as today's, but academically needy. I'll take that over impolite any day, but it still requires energy.

Can't wait to hear about your ladies' lunch when you get a chance.

Love you, Barb