Long day

I hate the first day of classes in a new term. It's always insane in the office, and the situation is not made better by the fact that I am now pretty much holding down the fort single-handedly in our department. It's also not made better by discovering that sometime over the weekend one of our "brilliant academicians" downloaded a virus to the brand new computer in the shared workroom, so on top of the usual beginning of term madness, I had to be dealing with cleaning a virus off the damned computer. Grrrrr.

I also found out today that one of my favorite faculty members who has been seriously ill, has been moved to hospice care, which means they don't expect him to live much longer. He's a sweet man and we will miss him terribly.

On the up side, Riku (the new name for Mikage-- the daughter-unit decided he was much too feisty for a calm name like Mikage) was an angel and did not keep us up all night on his first night out of the laundry room. After lights-out he did try several times to sleep on my face but finally allowed himself to be discouraged and curled up next to me instead. When I woke up a few hours later he had gone elsewhere. I suspect into my daughter's room. He didn't run around meowing or having the 3am Kitty Krazies or anything. ;-)