Here I am, Monday morning, at UM.  I don’t have classes here nor do I work in Ann Arbor on Mondays this semester, but here I am anyway.  I wanted to attend an extra lab session for my online search class, and those are Sundays and Mondays.  Since I was out partying with husband’s 92 year old birthday girl aunt on Sunday, I am here today to do the lab. 

I’m glad I came in for the lab.  It didn’t go well, and now I know what I need to figure out before Wednesday when I have my real, graded lab.  I need to figure out how to get the thing to type up the results and then I need to successfully save it to my memory stick.  Today I only got the last page saved.  That won’t win me any points with the professor!

So now, my purpose for being here is finished and I am sitting up on the fourth floor of the UGLI (Undergraduate Library) in a window seat, a glass outcropping of sorts; a table sitting in a bumpout surrounded by floor to ceiling windows with a wonderful view of South University, the Law School, trees changing color, the Union tower complete with the big M flag, and students wandering to classes.  I haven’t had time to do this yet this semester, and it feels good to sit here and read undisturbed by any fuzzy, four legged, wet nosed, hyper pet.