GREAT NEWS!!  The construction on I70 West is now finished (after a year or more of slowed traffic), so my drive to CU went SOO fast yesterday.  And the truckers now have an extra lane to run in, so they weren’t hounding me at all (they’ve been really bad on 70 recently).  So even though it was raining, I had a marvelous drive to work yesterday!

Of course, from then on…I was just crazy busy really.  I had classes, and thankfully, my students were all pretty upbeat and talkative.  They seem to have recovered a bit over Thanksgiving, and since we have just about 2 weeks left (including finals), everyone can see the light at the end of the tunnel.  Amen!

Other than classes, I ran some errands, went home for lunch (Mom forgot to tell me she wouldn’t be there!), but it was okay because Deb came over during lunch with the girls to give me Eric’s birthday present (I told them the wrong DVD, so she needed to exchange it).  Kelly has a lovely cough now, so of course, I was covered in germs before going back, but I doubt I’ll catch it. *fingers crossed* I usually don’t get too sick, so we’ll hope the pattern holds!

Last night was Christmas rehearsal.  I’ve been trying not to think about it too much, but last night I did come fact to face with exactly how much there is to do before the 10th.  I was getting a bit tense by the end.  And it didn’t help that almost every one of my people has to miss at least one of our few remaining rehearsals, which they all informed me about last night.  YIKES!   So I spent most of the rest of the evening praying about it, reminding myself that it will all get done, and asking God to keep me focused on the reason we’re doing this (which is NOT about me!).  Still…should be interesting to see how it all comes down…