3/1: returning

...to our brownie experiments.  How long to bake them so that they're done but not overdone?  What counts as "just right?"  Today's time, 28 minutes, might be the answer.

2/28: cleaning

...the carpets in the bedroom and my office, with Chris' help.

2/27: peeling paint

...at the pier.  It caught my eye and had its own kind of beauty.

2/26: end-of-the-day

...conversations with colleagues.  They weren't long, but they were genuine.  One colleague mentioned that she had heard about my pamphlets being exhibited and offered congratulations; the other shared impressions of the semester so far and the challenges it's presented.

2/25: simultaneously

...reading Hawthorne's Wonder Book and Walpole's Castle of Otranto and noticing some similarities.

2/24: looking at similes

...in the Odyssey with students.  They noticed and thought of many good things.

2/23: practicing pronunciation

 ...with one of the Latin students during office hours.

2/22: scribbling

...a scribble book and remembering how fun they were to make last year.