5/22: on their way home
There's only an hour and a half left in the day, but before it ends Chris and Tilde will be back from the after-hours animal clinic in Little Rock. (It sounds like tests show that Tilde has a UTI, so of all the things it could have been, that seems manageable.)
5/21: driving
...to Little Rock this morning to drop a friend off at the airport. It's not far (40 miles each way), but these days I rarely do more than drive around town, so it felt good to be on the road.
5/20: finding
...a small Lego block that was missing from Celery, a Lego horse I found years ago, abandoned in a parking lot. Celery now lives in my car, and somehow the small piece got knocked out. I must have found it in the past and put it in a "I'll put it here so I don't forget it" place, and then I forgot it.
5/19: mending
...a library book that came apart in my hands. I could tell that it had already been mended once but with a kind of glue that didn't bond with the paper, so it just popped apart. I'm hoping that my fix lasts longer.
5/18: reformatting
...my cv. It's been in need of an overhaul--for a cleaner look--for quite some time. And now it has one.
5/17: Emma the Cat
...grooming Simon the Cat. Simon is not-entirely-tame and sometimes isn't very nice to Emma. Emma was nice to him anyway.
5/15: filing
...the last of the grades. Though I finished the grading last night, I wanted to pause and be sure before making them official.
5/13: another day
...that included online lecture opportunities. Yesterday I Zoomed a lecture on John Gabriel Stedman's use of Andromache in his account of his time in Suriname. Today I attended a webinar on Greek and Roman myth.
5/12: seeing
...a deer in our woods. Chris spotted it through our bedroom window and called to me so I could see it too.
5/11: waiting
...until today to write some emails. Though it meant putting them off last week, I didn't want to write when rushed and scattered. This evening I was more collected, and that allowed me to focus on choosing my words and making connections to the people I was writing to.
5/10: a handful
...of berries gathered at the end of my morning walk. There won't be as many this year as last year, so a handful seemed like bounty.
5/7: reading
...Mac Barnett's Make Believe: On Telling Stories to Children and then Runaway Bunny and The Indoor Noisy Book by Margaret Wise Brown.
5/6: devising
...the final writing prompts for the Myths & Picturebooks class. I like the way I decided to list and divvy up possible things for them to focus on.
5/5: again trying to be okay
...about speaking up in a committee meeting, even though I was bringing up substantive issues that weren't necessarily welcome.
5/4: trying to be okay
...about standing up for myself when I had scheduled a room and people who hadn't scheduled it were using it.
5/2: doing
...some necessary end-of-semester work, and feeling like I've made some progress with it.
4/30: a good conversation
...in the final Myth class of the semester about what Ovid's Metamorphoses emphasizes about the world, humans, human life, and its challenges.
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