4/30: wrapping up
...some student projects by getting to visit with each student for a little while and talk about their experiences.
4/26: the last
...Quiet Writing session of the semester. I was really sleepy, but I kept at it and wrote my way to some good thoughts!
4/24: revising
...a translation from English into Latin of "You'll Never Walk Alone" that I did a couple of years ago. I smoothed out some lines that had been okay but glitchy.
4/22: less frustration
...in the day as it went on. Usually it's the opposite, and I am so glad for this change! A good book discussion group and some good emails are helping me end the day on an up-note.
4/21: watching
...shifting shadows and light on my work as I sat on the porch this afternoon and the wind moved through the trees' new leaves.
4/20: reading
...Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire, in preparation for a book discussion group on Monday.
4/19: a sunny afternoon
Walking across campus in the spring green and sunlight was so good after a Thursday of greyness and rain.
4/18: a relative pause
...in the relentlessness of my April to-do list. Perhaps I scheduled assignments wisely for once?
4/17: second try
Last week's bookbinding session with Chris' group of young men on probation had some hiccups, so we tried it again this week. It still had some issues, but we were able to get the books finished, and I think has to pretty much count as a victory.
4/16: spontaneous
...clapping from one student when another student in Latin class translated a hard sentence without a hitch.
4/15: awaiting me
...at my office this morning: a surprise bag of home-baked snickerdoodles from a former advisee.
4/14: one week later
Last Sunday I thought I'd cook some quinoa, rice, and lentils to pack for lunches during the week--but then I never got around to it. This Sunday I did.
4/13: in the evening
Usually we do taxes on the Sunday morning before tax day, but tomorrow I have a book-binding workshop, so we decided to do them tonight. I dislike the whole process (not the paying-taxes part but the bureaucratic paperwork part), but it was better to not face it first-thing in the day and to stop half-way through to make pomegranate gin and tonics.
4/10: looking forward
...to a small book-discussion group at school in a week and a half. One of the students in the group saw me in the cafeteria today and told me that they really liked the novel we'll be talking about.
4/9: good things in classes
We had ice cream day in Latin and it was sweet. Then in Myth I had a new-to-me thought about the poetic metamorphosis of Ovid's Phaethon via simile.
4/8: planned and unplanned
An alum swinging by my office unexpectedly this afternoon.
A friend and I meeting up for dinner and gelato.
A friend and I meeting up for dinner and gelato.
4/6: out in the morning
...to the nature trail near campus. I wanted to try to photograph the redbud reflections again.
4/5: reprieve
I had been thinking my office hours would be full this afternoon, but only one student ended up coming. I do like it when I have the chance to work with students one-on-one during office hours, but the past two weeks have been so busy that I didn't mind having a little unanticipated quiet time.
4/4: trying a new way
...of teaching Euripides' Alcestis by locating moments from the play on a spectrum running from "humorous" to "serious" with "discomforting" in the middle.
4/3: opening my office door
...and being greeted by the bluebells which a friend brought me yesterday.
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