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I should be Spring Cleaning.

At least, at some level I should be Spring Cleaning, since it is currently Spring and there are many things that need cleaning. There are many things that just need doing at the moment, and I've run out of resolve to do any of them. A few moments ago James and I went out to the front step to do Homeschool. We were going to have class outside, as you do on a delightfully warm and sunny day. But it had clouded over since lunchtime, and there was chilly breeze, and neither of us had proper coats, and I could hardly keep my eyes open. We agreed to finish school later today.

And so I came back in. I came back in past the two baskets of laundry that need to be folded, the folder full of choir anthems that were finished two months ago, and through the library, which is currently a mess of toy trains, James' school things in a heap, books pulled off of shelves, legos, duplos, hot wheels, and nesting toys.

And I sat down at my desk. My desk that has my old phone on it, which I ought to sell on eBay or something if Sprint isn't going to buy it after all. And the two paystubs which ought to be filed in date order in my file. And the request from the Laurelton Volunteer Fire Department for their fundraising drive. And the Zola novel which I just finished which ought to be back on the shelf, and the Rowan Williams book which I inter-library loaned which I ought to keep plugging away at. And a pair of headphones, so I can listen to the latest brass chat interview. And a long list of pieces that I ought to be listening to and looking up the scores for.

All of it's in a heap, along with a mouthpiece case, two mutes, a bottle of valve oil, a library card, a pen, the complete poems of Phillip Larkin, four notebooks, and my Fredonia folder.

I'm just not sure that I have it in me to do Spring Cleaning today.

The funny thing is that while I'm out of the house--while I'm driving to Syracuse or sitting in the pit counting rests, I'm full of expectation that if I could only get home for a few hours I could look up a way to order J a new bank card and schedule the warranty work that needs to be taken care of on the Yaris, and clean out and vacuum my car and take the boys up to the lake to throw rocks in and all of the other grand schemes.

But I think that all of those things will need to wait until tomorrow. It will still be Spring tomorrow.