12/20: making

...Christmas cracker candy and some paper snowflakes.

12/19: getting

...annual Covid vaccine and flu vaccine shots today.  Later than is ideal, but better late than never.

12/18: not getting

...possible bad news about my job today.

12/17: getting in

...a morning walk and a lunch of fried rice, as well as an afternoon and evening of solid work.  I didn't do a very long walk, but it was still good to be out in the air and moving my body.  Fried rice is my go-to weekend lunch, but since I was working from home today, I got to make it on a weekday, which felt like a treat.  In the afternoon and evening I graded the final Percy Jackson assignments, and that went smoothly and clearly.  After I was finished with that, I read the upper-level Latin students' semester reflections:  they really liked the narrated PowerPoint assignments as well as our workshop atmosphere.  Yes.

12/16: still taking a breather

...from grading.  I wrote more cards--to friends as well as to folks on the Angel Card list.  I drove a friend to the airport.  I did a little grocery shopping.  I listened to some of Vita Nostra.  I read Emma Southon's chapter on Sulpicia Lepidina in A Rome of One's Own (and I wish I had had everyone in the upper-level Latin class read that particular chapter instead of its being one option among many).

12/15: readying

...holiday cards for mailing.

12/14: taking

...my usual weekend walk for the first time in 3 weeks. I had been too ill recently, and I didn't want to risk getting more ill during the end-of-semester push.

12/13: receiving

 ...a copy of a sweet artist's book from a student.