12/12: recentering

...myself after a too-centrifugal yesterday.  I listened to the beginning Latin students' recordings in the morning; I sorted papers in the early afternoon; I read (an article on Homer & fan fiction, Artforum, and some of A Rome of One's Own) while the Percy Jackson students were doing their final writing sessions; I continued reading this evening; and I wrote some notes to students unselfconsciously, saying good things that I wanted to say and not worrying about it.

And an extra good thing:  one of the Percy Jackson students suggested that the class wear pajamas for their final (we call the class PJO for "Percy Jackson and the Olympians," so it would be PJs-for-PJO), and a bunch of them did wear pajama bottoms : )  I didn't, but I brought in my Schleich llama who is named Pajama, and I put Pajama on my desk for them as a good luck mascot.