Things I liked and didn't like this week

It is Sunday night, and I was so tired today that I feel asleep sitting up and literally didn't know where I was or what time it was when I woke up a little while later.  Herewith, then, the lazy blogger's guide to her week.

Liked:

• Playing with our kittens, recently adopted from the local shelter,  which is awesome (kittens and shelter).
• Making more vegetable-centered meals.
• Experimental chocolate chip cookies made wholly with oat flour.
• Obeying my older cat, who insists that I sit down and write most evenings by nudging me toward the study. 
• Noticing that I have written something on the project I've been working on every day this month. Every day!
• Christine Tully's article at IHE about using a writing day or writing time effectively. https://insidehighered.com/advice/2020/01/20/advice-using-writing-day-most-productively-opinion. 
• The weather (lots of rain washing away lots of snow).
• My mad skills with setting up pumps in window wells to drain off excess. (See: lots of rain washing away lots of snow). 
• Getting a good (dare I say glowing?) review with contract to follow on something I wrote.
• Getting more ideas the more I work. 

Didn't like:

• Email from a colleague: "Hey, would you do me a favor? I would do it except that I am just so busy with my scholarly project that I really don't have time right now. I'd like it if you'd get it done soon." Would you ignore such a request for a week or more? Would you then respond curtly? Yeah, me too.
• Fielding a barrage of emails from a colleague (let's call her Karen) who was obviously on fire about a joint project we're on. Email after email came hurtling in, with phrases like "please reply to this right away." Needless to say, my responses were completely ignored but the barrage continued, along with one final request for me, until I got a cheery "That's all for now! Karen out!" Would you respond with a single line "did you get my revision to X document?" and resolve not to send another single word until you hear a response? Yeah, me too. 
• The feeling that I'm letting down not these two but others whom I've promised work that's not yet done.