10/11: finishing

...the big chunk of grading that needed to happen this weekend.

10/10: getting a start

...on some grading that really needs to happen this weekend.

10/9: doing

...some different things in Greek today.  We looked at the inscription on the boundary stone of the agora ("I am the boundary stone of the agora" it says), and I tried a new way of explaining how the forms of the demonstrative this/these is built (using color).

And another good thing (in fact, a great thing!) added later:  I received a message from a dear person whom I met through postal networks and this blog.  We haven't been in touch in years, so it was a surprise and a delight to hear from her.

10/8: quiet hours

...constructing a Latin test (with coffee).

10/7: a bouquet

...of pop-up flowers and hummingbirds, gifted by a student who had noticed my mini lemon tree pop-up earlier.

10/6: sharing jokes

Since my Greek students brought me a present yesterday, I gave them little cards with silly jokes printed on them today.  (They're meant to be lunchbox notes for parents to use, but I like giving them out too.)

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.