Got up, lazed around a bit (I was tired on account of staying up way too late). Only after sending out my slides to the other TAs right at 8 though. Showered and then decided I'd finish fixing my bike. Which I did, since I got the crank extractor to work (my issue was not using a wrench for additional leverage), pulled off the other side, replaced them (the new ones fit to my bottom bracket!), put the bolts back in hopefully at the right torque and added the pedals. The pedals actually took way more work than I thought because I forgot that there's a difference between the threading on the left and right pedal. But once I got that right, it was pretty easy. Put my wheel on and at this point all I need to do is grease the chain and other basic maintenance. I'll see if it works as intended on Saturday.
Stopped at the thrift shop on my way to work. My goal was to find outrageous rings (unsuccessful), a silky cravat or scarf (unsuccessful but...) and a handkerchief (unsuccessful). I did however find a couple of shawls, including a quite nice pashmina one which one of my sisters has already claimed. So I grabbed three of those for a dollar (it was a pay per pound store). The two non-pashmina ones are pretty low quality and thin fabric but will work in a jiffy. My goal tomorrow is to cut the larger one and turn it into a cravat myself. It's not quite the right fabric but it is at least a good story to tell and it will have different patterns on each side. I can hand stitch it but that will take a long time, so I'm hoping to use one of the sewing machines at the campus art studio (free for students!) to speed up the process. I still need to make the pattern of course bit it is fairly simple and I'll at least do my initial cuts tonight (and see if the fabric completely falls apart on me, ruining the whole project).
If that doesn't work out, the other not nice shawl I grabbed is less wide so I can turn it into a scarf of some sort without cutting. Won't work great but I've only had a couple days to get this figured out (and if it really doesn't work out, I can just use a tie, those were a thing in the 1920s. But it isn't as cool and eccentric).
Played games at English corner, taught my classes and then went home and did a zoom temple recommend interview. Glad that's over; I guess I'm going on the trip next Saturday. Regraded the one question everyone was upset at me about. I was right for about 2/3rds to 1/2 of the students (the rest I did grade wrong) but the other TAs were much more lenient so I ended up giving back most of the points I took away. Anyway, it didn't take too long since I just had to look at my old comments and see who I said needed more explanation. That's why I keep detailed notes (also to help my students). After doing that, I went and started to figure out how I'm making this cravat, which is when I remembered the on campus art studio exists. I really hope they let me bring my own fabric; I get why they are anal about outside materials but it shouldn't really matter for something like this. And then I wrote these.
Tomorrow is a busy day and I really hope I'm not up till like 3 in the morning hand stitching this thing. Because my DIY pattern paper is bad enough and I don't need to add more trouble to this.
Feeling fine. Maybe dipping slightly more down again, but certainly within the band that is "fine".
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