3/30: making
...a double batch of fried rice in the morning so that I could take it to school for lunch today and tomorrow.
3/28: trying
...a new-to-us and relatively new-in-town restaurant for lunch. We haven't been going out to eat much at all in the past 6 years, and when I think back on how often we used to eat out, I'm a little shocked. It makes it more of an Event when we go to restaurants now. Today's fare: burrata with endive leaves and a honey balsamic dressing, then some pizza.
3/26: hearing and watching
...conference videos in preparation for the conference meeting on Sunday. There were some good things to learn about and think about! And I kept myself focused by making some scribble books as I listened.
3/25: finding
...the main source of a cat smell in my home office that has been eluding (and vexing!) me. I know: this is not a particularly pleasant "good thing" to post, but the smell was so much less than pleasant that finding it and, with luck, getting it gone is worth noting.
3/24: doing
...spring break things: reading for pleasure, taking a walk on a weekday, working on house tasks, watching a movie, fiddling with a pamphlet.
3/23: a good temperature
...for walking outside this morning. It felt good to do before dealing with some work-tasks in the afternoon and evening.
3/22: working
...on formatting a pamphlet for which I did the initial erasure almost 4 years ago. The format isn't finished (more possibilities to try and tinkering to do), but it feels good for it to be actually underway.
3/21: postponing
...chores until tomorrow so that the first day of spring break could be a day of rest.
3/20: a surprise
...thank-you card and gift certificate from a former advisee, left in my mail-holder this afternoon.
3/17: looking at
..."Typhon," a painting by Peter Tobias, with my Myth students. I'm always glad when I find a more abstract piece that I can use in class, and the students seemed to enjoy talking about this one.
3/16: lens wipes
...from last century, probably the 1960s or 70s. Chris brought some quality lens-cleaning sheets back from his last visit to New Jersey. His father must have had them for his cameras or other equipment. I am using them to clean my glasses, and they are really (really) good.
3/12: hearing
...the students' thoughts about Aman-Jean's painting of Hesiod and the Muse (link here). I show it most years in the Myth class, and I think this year's comments about it were especially good. It's also a nice reminder of my years in Los Angeles, during which I came across this painting in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
3/11: finally
...the forsythia is blooming. Its flowers are later than the other forsythia bushes on the ridge, so I had begun to think that it might not blossom at all this year. I'm glad I was wrong.
3/10: falling
...when I got out of the car at the end of the day was not a good thing. But I was glad that I was at home when I did it (rather than school), that it didn't damage my clothes, that I was wearing my wrist brace (so that I didn't further damage my wrist), and that my shirt had long sleeves (so even though the cut is bad, it didn't get dirty).
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).
3/3: 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.
3/1: returning
...to our brownie experiments. How long to bake them so that they're done but not overdone? What counts as "just right?" Today's time, 28 minutes, might be the answer.
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