Today was the Acadiana Alzheimer’s Walk and the Dr C’s Zs team (the fish research lab I work for) walked, mostly together and raised some money for researching a cure. (If you want to donate you can go HERE.)
So I slept like crap, got up at 7 am and got ready to go. Mum bought me a uni hoodie and since it was cool I wore that and a pair of shorts, because that’s the uniform of the middle aged fat man. I managed to find parking, and my team before the walk which was good (I was anxious about that) and then I walked the two mile route with another guy on the team who is interested in researching autism and looking for research partners. His study should start next semester when I am able to actually work with the fish, and hopefully we get some good data and can write a paper for a conference.
A. and I walked together the whole time, just yammering away on all kinds of topics and it was awesome. I had forgotten how nice it could be to talk to someone in person — I have certain friends I talk to by phone, email, text and DMs often, but to actually have a physical real person to talk to that actually was interested in talking to me was really good. I didn’t know how much I had missed that.
After I got home I took a nap, and now that Shabbat is over I’m trying to decide what to have for dinner. Normally I wouldn’t do something like that on Shabbat, but it was to save lives (mine too) and I didn’t have to do anything but — well, walk. And that is certainly permitted.
So yeah.
The next couple of weeks are going to be a little hectic, I have a podcast script to write about Jewish Law and Reproductive Technology to finish before next month, a multipage elegy poem to write, and a final in pre contact north American archaeology I do not feel prepared for yet.
But it’s been a surprisingly good week for me.
How was yours?