9/9: a student's laugh

...as they sight-read a (silly) little dialogue in Ancient Greek.

9/8: pop-tart pie

...for dessert (recipe here).

9/7: day 2

...of the cleaning-my-school-office-carpet project.  It is much better now.

9/6: if I hadn't

...gone into my school office this evening to scrub my rug, I wouldn't have seen light on the lake glinting through green leaves.

If I hadn't forgotten the vacuum's battery, I wouldn't have seen the small rabbit hopping across the road as I returned to the house to get it.

If I hadn't left my office when I did, I wouldn't have seen pink clouds at sunset.

(I really didn't want to go into my school office to scrub my rug, but I'm glad I did.)

9/5: getting

...some work done that cleared my mind.

9/4: designing

...a pamphlet in a 10-minute stretch between meetings.

9/3: streamlining

...the grading of an assignment I've been using for a few years now.  I like it--the students need to collect passages of interest to them from the day's reading assignment--but my system for determining partial credit had gotten too complicated.  I'm hopeful that this will be smoother for me and for the students.

9/2: starting verbs

...in Greek.  We had a week of preliminaries (alphabet, pronunciation, accenting ground rules, technical terminology for verbs), and it feels good to now be generating and translating forms with the students.