It is Saturday which means FINALS WEEK IS DONE! *flops over*
It was not actually as stressful for me as my colleagues such as AnnC, who is the testing center sacrifice supervisor or CarlaL who had to hold down the front desk. Wave after wave of students crashed on our shores to take finals, and we ended up proctoring nearly 1,000 exams over the course of about 4½ days. That was actually one of our less-busy finals week.
Anyway, it was stressful enough to keep me from things like blogging and, well, anything that wasn’t work or walking Keely.
Yesterday morning I snapped this picture, which is shows a progression in the destruction of the New Times Country Buffet:
Not sure what they are planning to do with the bulldozer, other than possibly just knock down the walls? I think the roof has already been partially torn off, as some rafters are visible like bones in a desiccated carcass.
When I was showing it to KimM last night as we drove past after dinner, she reminded me that it was originally called OLD Times Country Buffet. It was changed to NEW Times Country Buffet about five-ish years ago, for reasons no one knows (I suspect in a misguided effort to go up against Golden Corral). KimM laughingly said that it has now progressed to representing the current dystopia of the U.S. by embodying END Times Country Buffet.
And. Well. She’s not wrong!!!! 🤣🤣🤣
In other news, I’m officially on vacation now, not due back to the office until 2022. I will be going in for a couple of short escapades this week but not full days. Of course, for me these days, “vacation” is a misnomer. My goal is to work on my fiction writing and my online courses. FULL LAUNCH of the Author Alchemist set for January 1st! C’mon let’s goooooooooooooo!!!!!