Vacation? What vacation?

Orts of my life:

1. The semester has ended, and yet I keep finding myself on campus - a meeting, two (!) days of training, graduation, another meeting. I have two meetings on Wednesday this week, and a local meeting on Thursday (part of my service to the community, expected of college professors), but tomorrow is ALL MINE.
2. For those of my readers who know me IRL, my dissertation advisor was in a very bad motorcycle accident six days ago, and is in an ICU unit in Ohio. He was on his way here to see his son graduate from college, and he and his partner planned to stay with us for about a week (she had planned to fly out). He has a lot of broken bones, but more seriously some head trauma and now a blood infection (not unusual in this type of situation, the doctor says). I spent a couple of days in a bit of an emotional tailspin last week: it's so frustrating not to be able to DO anything for him or his family.
3. Also I have had a bunch of pernicious computer viruses, and finally ended up getting my computer re-imaged today to get rid of them. Computing has been ad hoc and improvised lately; I found myself in the GIS lab today (of all places) reading emails and printing out stuff I have to read for the Fulbright seminar. Now I am re-installing all the files I backed up last week (boy were they impressed in the IT office that I actually had a backup! Thanks, B, for being my IT God).
4. Mom and Dad came over for dinner and just left a little while ago. I like how we can just be casual and have them over for something relatively simple. For dessert, we grilled pineapple - as we've had in our favorite Brazilian BBQ place - and B totally nailed it. Fabulous.