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Payday has come again, and the pay received has gone again, and more quickly. Most of the month's bills are paid, though, so Sherwood Cottage will stand yet a bit longer, and it will have in it what it needs to have. This is all to the good, but I know that more bills are coming, and it will be long before the "regular" payday comes again; I am fortunate, therefore, that work continues--or will when I return from the conference trip. Aside from the stacks of grading that will await me when I get back--and there will be stacks, as students are turning in papers today and they have an activity to occupy them while I am away--I expect there will be another freelance piece to do. It should prove interesting to juggle such things--and profitable, I can hope.

The weather around Sherwood Cottage is decidedly autumnal. We have not gotten down to freezing yet, so far as I am aware, but things have been chilly and gray. Today is supposed to offer more of the same: chill and damp. It is good that I like such weather, that I tend to thrive in it. Less good is how it affects the Mrs. Sunshine and clear skies work far better for her than clouds and rain. I suppose it is sensible enough, given our personalities; I have been accused of dampening the spirits of those around me, but she brightens every room in which she smiles. And while that is something of a cliché, those who know her know that it is also reasonably accurate; her joy is infectious, spreading rapidly and easily. It is one of many reasons I account myself lucky to have her in my life.

I had a fairly good time with my more professional website yesterday. I was able to post another sample essay for my students to follow. (Whether they do or not, I cannot control. All I can do is make the material available--and not many other professors I know actually write the essays they assign when they make the assignments.) It has attracted some attention already; evidently, the writing reads well for other people entirely. It is the kind of thing I could stand to see more of, and if I could find a way to more effectively monetize it, I would be happy to do so. Alas, I know no such way, at least not one that has a start-up cost I can afford to pay. There are donation buttons set up on the website--well away from where the students look, which may not be to my advantage in some ways but is likely to be helpful in others--and they may yet help.

Until and unless they do, however, or I can manage to get some other stream of income set up, work will have to continue yet further. How fortunate I am, then, that there is always more that needs doing!