9/30: soup!
I made garlic, ginger, and noodle soup for dinner, something we haven't had for years. It was a good choice, given our under-the-weather-ness. And the noodles were ready right as Chris pulled into the driveway.
9/29: remembering
...a good thing from the weekend: Chris harvested 4 gem-like muscadine grapes and we shared them. It's a good thing to remember that a day may have more good things than I can recall when I sit down to write a blog entry.
9/28: deciding
...that I'm too sick to teach tomorrow. Making the decision today means that I can go to sleep without wondering or worrying about how I'll feel in the morning--and that should translate into a better chance of getting some actual rest tonight.
9/27: finishing
...a piece of writing (about my Cuckoo Grey pamphlets) that I thought would take longer than it did.
9/26: yellow-orange
...flowers on the roadside. A welcome part of Arkansas autumn as I drive to school.
9/22: realizing
...how good Book 7 of the Aeneid is. It had been more than a decade since I last read it, and some parts I remembered (Allecto and Amata, Lavinia and the bees, Silvia and the stag), but other parts I did not (Allecto's reaction to Turnus' put-down!).
9/21: starting my day
...with games from The New York Times. It's something I began doing in 2020 or 2021, and it's been a regular part of my wake-up routine since then. I can't say I haven't missed a day, but I haven't missed many.
9/19: considering the wordcraft
...of a passage in Rick Riordan's The Sea of Monsters in class today. I like the chance to zoom in.
9/18: reading
...The Hounding by Xenobe Purvis. I'm not sure where it's going and if I'll continue liking it, but I find myself eager to return to it for some before-bed reading each night.
9/17: trying
...to hang onto the memory of a good class conversation in the early afternoon. It's hard because it was followed by a very not-good meeting in the later afternoon, but I'm trying to let that good thing count.
9/16: remembering
...to open the online submission portal for some student assignments this afternoon. I'm usually good about remembering to do this, but yesterday (when I'd normally do it) it slipped my mind. So I scheduled timed openings for the next 2 weeks' assignments.
9/14: making headway
...on taking photos of my pamphlets. I need them for a possible exhibition opportunity, and I had hired a professional photographer to take some pictures last week, but it turns out that the resulting photos weren't right, so I'm doing it myself : ) Mine aren't perfect, but they capture more of the pamphlets' feel.
9/12: a hummingbird
...zipping by the window in the morning. I was lucky to be there to see it! I thought to myself, "If nothing else particularly good happens today, at least I already have this as a good thing."
9/11: 100%
...all around: everyone who turned in their Latin homework got full marks on it. (I'm not sure this has ever happened before.)
9/10: matching colors
I picked a shirt to wear today that had a light blue background with flowers in dusty shades of yellow and pink. As I drove to school, I saw flowers of those colors along the roadside, and the sky was the same blue too.
9/8: taking the time
...this morning to make a batch of tofu "tuna" salad to have for lunches this week.
9/6: getting photos taken
...of some of my pamphlets. It's for an exhibition possibility, so they needed to be high-quality. I don't have the equipment and know-how to do a good job of it myself, so I found someone who does. The session seemed to go well, and I'll look forward to seeing the results.
9/5: quiet time
...in my office from 2:15 to 4:00. It was a much needed space to get some things done.
9/4: another Daphne poem
...or rather, several Daphne poems. In a chapbook by Mari Ness that arrived in my mailbox today.
9/3: a trio
In the morning: coming up with a format for a new artist-book workshop at school.
In the afternoon: admiring a student's embroidered t-shirt. (I usually try not to comment on students' appearances and clothes, but I knew this student wouldn't mind. It turns out that they bought the t-shirt at a thrift store, and we enjoyed enthusing over the hand-embroidered creepy crawlies on it.)
In the evening: sweeping the floors! Which translates to making time on a "school night" to do something for the house (not just schoolwork).
9/1: finishing and starting
...audiobooks while doing today's pamphlet-making. I finished Grady Hendrix's Witchcraft for Wayward Girls and started A. S. Byatt's The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye (recommended by a friend I made 40 years ago). This sentence in Byatt's book made me happy: "She was by nature a reading, not a traveling princess."
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