In which she rediscovers why it's useful to stay home when sick

Working with a mild fever isn't conducive to concentration. Or indeed reliably staying awake. Granted I was attempting to read a chemistry textbook in an attempt to look less-than-stupid when students ask me for enthalpy charts, and... let's just say, what would really be useful would be a book that explains thermodynamics without formulae because I've forgotten large chunks of my high school maths and didn't understand it very well back then either, and also I keep having to flip back to remind myself what U and q and w mean. I just... when it's prose I can follow; when it's formulae, even once I've decoded it, it has no meaning for me.

Random things:

• Dried strawberries. So awesome.
• So half the grills around my house's foundations (intended to facilitate airflow while keeping out fauna) are all rusted away, and Dad replaced a bunch with new ones, but we never got around to the rest, so I've just got bricks sitting in them. But recently I've been hearing something under the house and it's kind of obvious because there's plastic down there trying to keep the moisture from rising. Turns out some cat has pushed the bricks inside so it could get in.
  
  So I arranged the bricks such that they couldn't be pushed in, but a couple of nights later I hear the cat again. Turns out it's levered the bricks out this time. So now I've added a larger heavier brick leaning against the lot, and we'll see how strong the creature is.
• Boots says, "tgggggggggfmn".

In which she gets twitchy

I'm rewatching some old episodes of Due South and...

(apart from omg yeah, that's some really skeevy appropriation of the Inuit; and apart from how I'm quite admiring at the nice structures, eg the bookends of jumping into water, and the use of fire, in Burning Down the House)

...I'm watching Eclipse and they're in the crypt and there are weeping angel statues all around. I used to love these scenes with the wittiness and character development -- there are some absolutely wonderful moments here -- but now I just want to shout at Ray and Fraser,

"Don't turn your back, don't look away, and don't blink!"