Working Hard

 

Trying to get a lot of smaller tasks off my plate.  Been busy on the computer all day after completing 10.4 miles (a little bit under 17km) this morning:

• I checked, rechecked, and triple checked my proofs for the book and finally gave it my stamp of approval
• Wrote three letters of recommendation for students.  These three are all applying to medical schools.
• Deconstructed and am reconstructing my Fall lecture syllabi to an apparently "normal" semester format this Fall.  Now that I have such an array of electronic items, I am contemplating which electronica are worth keeping and which are not needed..... so.... I am not simply going back to my pre-Covid syllabi.... but am revamping them to try to keep some of the electronica.
• Worked on the collective laboratory syllabi for the big physiology course in which I have some co-instructors.
• Worked on the embryology laboratory syllabus. 
• Pumped through a helluva lot of e-mail.

As I worked diligently here, though, is I spied my big can of Sir Walter Raleigh pipe tobacco, and decided to open up the can to at least indulge a bit in the beautiful aroma of the leaf in the can.  Besides the beautiful natural odor of the leaf itself, I also enjoy the tiny hints of molasses, and just a hint of bourbon.  Every pipe tobacco has its own inherent pouch or can effervescence.  But, as Sir Walter Raleigh was a staple of my Dad's pipe smoking.... and was the first leaf I ever sampled myself.... its aroma brings back so many, many good memories and thoughts of incredible times gone by.