3/9: reading

...Richmond Lattimore's translation of Hesiod's Theogony in preparation for tomorrow's Myth class.  It's the version through which I first encountered the Theogony (back in 1988 I think?), but I've used different translations when I've taught the text.  Re-reading it now makes me realize why I liked the poem so much when I first encountered it those many years ago.

3/8: visiting

...the flowering plum trees in the woods on the ridge.  It is a good year for them, and Chris and I spotted many that we did not know about (or did not remember from 2021, the last unexpectedly robust plum year when we did a survey).

3/7: calculating

...midterm grades for 2 of my courses.

3/6: actually gasping

...when the blooming wild plum trees caught my eye this morning.

3/5: choosing words

...to include in my Greek / English etymology workshop tomorrow.

3/4: getting through

...more grading this evening than I thought I would.

3/3: reading

...Hawthorne's description of Shadow Brook and remembering being there with Chris.  Meeting up with that paragraph this evening gave me a boost I really needed.

3/2: tomato galette

...leftovers for dinner.  It was nice, at the end of a weird day, to have to make only a little salad to go with food I'd made over the weekend.