The Thoughts of a Frumpy Professor: Done

Thursday, January 27, 2022

11.7 miles ran.

3.5 hours of big voice lecture.

8 hours of cyborging “Covid Friendly” updates of lectures.

It is almost 9:00pm. I can do no more today.

My pipes and pipe tobaccos have been teasing me all day…. calling for me to join them in fun and frivolity.

It is exhausting.

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Pat M. said...: Can you allow yourself a relaxing adult beverage, or are you concerned that this might send you right into the welcoming arms of your pipes? In whatever form you take it, Professor, you are due for some well-earned rest. I hope you can enjoy at least a short period of happy indolence before you get back up and start your next round of cyborging!; Thursday, 27 January, 2022
Pat M. said...: I had dinner last night, Professor, with an old friend I hadn't seen in person for nearly two years because of COVID restrictions. The feeling of re-connection was absolutely wonderful.

It occurred to me that, in a sense, you may be in for something similar when you go back to your pipes. Each is an old friend from whom you've been separated for a while. And each will offer you the joys of getting re-acquainted after a long time apart, as you rediscover each friend's place in your life as a pipe smoker.

Maybe your pipes and tobaccos aren't "teasing." Maybe they are just a little bit lonely. Maybe they want you to be the best of your old self again, joining them in a fun and frivolity that has been too much absent from your life without them.

I hope the weather allows you an enjoyable run today, as a break/variance from lots of busy cyborging, Professor!; Friday, 28 January, 2022
The Blog Fodder said...: The pipes, the pipes are calling...; Friday, 28 January, 2022

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