I suspect there is some after-effect of burning the emotional candle at both ends, and now you're feeling the effects, Linn. Get lots of sleep, eat healthy foods, breathe, and get some exercise. Read lots of good books.

Today I hefted a large box full of photos and negative envelopes (had filled a full file drawer) onto a book truck and seem to have pulled some abdominal muscles. I have the hot pad thing in place right now, and I think it'll be an early night. I'd given my photos to the university archivist, but when I turned them over there seem to be too few boxes. It turns out that this file drawer was in storage over the summer and if I hadn't asked for my file to be delivered to my office (even though I didn't know if I had a use for it) they might have been lost. I opened the bottom drawer the other day and there the were!

One reason for an early night is I'm rereading The Hobbit and I'm up to the point where they have found the back door to the mountain and Bilbo is creeping down the well-hewn hall. There are only 80 pages left at this point, and there is a whole bunch of banter with the dragon coming up. It looks like Jackson is going to base the entire last movie on about 50 pages of the book? What a lot of made-up stuff he must be planning for that flick.

I need to work on the garden - replacing plants killed in the 9^o temperatures early in the week. Fingers crossed we don't have any more severe freezes. It's nice this evening, not getting much below 50, so the dogs are out in the garage. Just reminds me, the heater is still on out there. I'll turn it off in the morning.

SRS