10/5: gifts
...from my Greek students. Markers, erasers, and cleaner for the whiteboard. Plus a thank-you card. I think it's the first time in all my years of teaching that a gift came from a class rather than an individual student.
10/4: addressing
...envelopes for a Cuckoo Grey mailing. There are 2 pamphlets I made a bunch of copies of during the summer, but--given other Cuckoo Grey mailings and then the start of school--I haven't sent them out yet. Over the next 2 weeks I plan to.
10/3: apples, apples
...everywhere.
I eat an apple pretty much every day. I've tried other fruits as regular fare, but they don't stick; for whatever reason, apples are a habit.
Yesterday my poem-a-day book had a beautiful poem by John Drinkwater about apples.
I bought apple cider at the grocery store--such a taste of autumn.
Apples were a theme in Rachel Hochhauser's Lady Tremaine, which I finished listening to today and have enjoyed.
I talked to a friend this evening who is planning on making apple crisp for her brunch guests tomorrow.
10/2: keeping
...a cardigan in my school office. I took it to school yesterday because we had a meeting in a room that I knew would be cold. And I thought ahead enough to keep it at school, remembering that I had a long testing session today in a room that is outrageously cold.
10/1: bringing to class
...my 19th century copy of Phantasmion by Sara Coleridge. I wanted to show the students what uncut/unopened pages looked like since we were talking about folding sheets into pages for bookbinding.
9/29: tuning
...the car radio to the classical music station. I think that's better for my wellbeing during my drive to and from work. Listening to the news was not helping my frame of mind--and I read enough news throughout the day already.
9/28: receiving
...a rare copy of Sounds of Summer Night written by May Garelick and illustrated by Beni Montresor. It's an ex-library copy from the 1960s with (unfortunately) some permanent ink cross-outs, but I'm still so glad I have such a minimalist wonder. Its images are both calming and exciting.
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