8/31: a good switch

...in my school-morning breakfast routine.  A batch of baked oatmeal with blueberries can last all week.  It keeps me more satisfied than cereal, and it has less sugar (and more protein) than the chocolate flaxseed muffins I sometimes make.

8/30: hand-feeding

...Emma the Cat his pill.  He is very good about taking it that way, and I am grateful every day that it isn't a contest of wills.

8/29: thinking a little

...about museums in children's literature, prompted by a student's observation yesterday, and enjoying coming up with some new thoughts.

8/28: squeezing in

...some bookbinding.  I went to bed thinking about a possible solution to a teaching conundrum (what bindings to include or not in a course), and I woke up wanting to see if a new-to-me binding would be manageable (it was).  I also thought of a way to incorporate discussion of some other bindings through examples I'll bring in.

8/27: considering

...pages and how they work.  Students brought in interesting pages that they found and had good things to say about their own offerings and other people's.

8/26: educators

A high school friend / now school administrator had his final first-day-back-to-school.  It was great to take some time to think about him, his career, and how lucky students have been to have him on their side.

A former student / now teacher sent me a card with some amazingly kind words about the time she spent with me during her undergraduate studies.  It was wonderful to think about her and those days--and to know that she is doing good work in the world with her own students.

8/25: marking

...the shift in seasons, at least in terms of the academic year.  Yesterday I finished reading the "Summer" section of Grant Snider's Poetry Comics--fitting because it was the day before the fall semester began.  And today, at the end of the first day of classes, I started reading the "Fall" section.

8/24: working out

...some details for my courses this semester.  And just in time, since classes begin tomorrow.