11/5: flowers!

 From a student!

11/4: making headway

...with designing (and writing descriptions of) some assignments for the upper-level Latin class.

11/3: ordering

...some photo prints to test holiday card possibilities.  I had worked on some options in mid-October but then delayed getting prints made.  I'm glad I took the time to submit an order today:  the cards should reach me by mid-November, giving me just enough time to rush-order a bunch of whichever one I choose for holiday mailing.

11/2: morning, afternoon, evening

Morning:  voting without a long line.
Afternoon:  baking a chocolate gingerbread cake (recipe here).
Evening:  doing 3 school tasks.

11/1: good afternoon meetings

...with students.  It was a tough week in many ways, so I was especially grateful for thoughtful, unrushed conversations in my office this afternoon.

Oh!  And a bonus good thing:  a student gave me a little bag of Halloween goodies.

10/31: hearing people

...at my "Origami, Etymology, and Bats" workshop be excited about words and word histories.

10/30: getting some reassurance

...about my eye.  I had a sudden PVD (posterior vitreous detachment) episode during my afternoon class yesterday, and I got an emergency appointment today to have it looked at.  Right now it doesn't seem like it's connected to anything worse (like a tear), but I'll have a follow-up in a few weeks.  In the meanwhile, it's quite an adjustment to get used to disrupted vision, as if I'm looking through a dirty window all the time.  Still, I'm grateful that it's only that adjustment that I'm needing to deal with.

10/29: showing

...my pamphlets to the students in a letterpress class at work.  They were so amazingly nice and thoughtful.