9/29: tuning
...the car radio to the classical music station. I think that's better for my wellbeing during my drive to and from work. Listening to the news was not helping my frame of mind--and I read enough news throughout the day already.
9/28: receiving
...a rare copy of Sounds of Summer Night written by May Garelick and illustrated by Beni Montresor. It's an ex-library copy from the 1960s with (unfortunately) some permanent ink cross-outs, but I'm still so glad I have such a minimalist wonder. Its images are both calming and exciting.
9/27: preparing food
...for the week. I made a batch of blueberry baked oatmeal that will last all week, a coffee walnut cake for some upcoming desserts, and fried rice for Monday and Tuesday lunch.
9/26: morning and evening
Morning: It was finally temperate enough to walk outside! I saw the blinking of geese's wings as they flapped overhead. I watched butterflies. I visited the lake and photographed reflections.
Evening: I finished writing the sabbatical proposal that I began in the afternoon. Hurray for getting it done in a day!
9/25: 50 cents off
...per gallon when I bought gas today. I almost didn't take the time to fill up after grocering this afternoon, but I'm glad I did: when I paid at the pump, I saw that the perk on my shopper's card would otherwise have expired before I would have used it.
9/23: students asking
...about the index card art swap I used to run regularly on campus. It was 15 years ago that a student and I did that! But the current students had come across it in an old issue of the campus newspaper and wanted to know more.
9/22: a cooler day
...at last. It's funny to think of a day with highs in the 80s as "cooler," but there it is, and I'll take it.
9/21: celebrating
...my blogiversary with a chocolate mousse pie. This blog is an adult--18 years old!
9/20: rebounding
...somewhat from my under-the-weather day yesterday. In addition to some taking-it-easy reading, I walked on the treadmill for a mile and did some baking before I had to turn to schoolwork in the evening. I was glad that I proofread and submitted curricular forms yesterday evening so that tonight was less crowded.
9/19: coming across
...the work of Beni Montresor online. I was able to read one of his picturebooks (The Witches of Venice) through archive.org, and I ordered a (rare) copy of a book he illustrated back in the 60s (Sounds of a Summer Night by May Garelick). I've been under the weather today, so I appreciated the delight of his imagination and aesthetic.
9/18: having a breakthrough
...about how to approach a project I'm supervising. It came as such a relief.
9/16: talking about accents
...in the beginning Greek class. One student came up with a good short-hand way of referring to the scenario when a long penult has to be accented with an acute rather than circumflex because of a long ultima: they called it "power sharing," which was perfect.
9/15: listening
...to an audiobook this morning while I was getting ready for work. It was nice to have a kind of company.
9/14: another anthem
...and this time for Monday. As I was driving home this afternoon I heard The Bangles' "Manic Monday" on the radio.
9/13: fitting in
...some baking amid work and other frustrations. In the morning I made my blueberry baked oatmeal for the week ahead. In the afternoon I made a chocolate-pepper-pecan galette.
9/11: an anthem
...for Fridays: "Friday I'm in Love" by The Cure. Chris and I danced to it in the morning.
9/6: if I hadn't
...gone into my school office this evening to scrub my rug, I wouldn't have seen light on the lake glinting through green leaves.
If I hadn't forgotten the vacuum's battery, I wouldn't have seen the small rabbit hopping across the road as I returned to the house to get it.
If I hadn't left my office when I did, I wouldn't have seen pink clouds at sunset.
(I really didn't want to go into my school office to scrub my rug, but I'm glad I did.)
9/3: streamlining
...the grading of an assignment I've been using for a few years now. I like it--the students need to collect passages of interest to them from the day's reading assignment--but my system for determining partial credit had gotten too complicated. I'm hopeful that this will be smoother for me and for the students.
9/2: starting verbs
...in Greek. We had a week of preliminaries (alphabet, pronunciation, accenting ground rules, technical terminology for verbs), and it feels good to now be generating and translating forms with the students.
9/1: ducklings
...popped into my head as I was making up English sentences to explain active, middle, and passive voice to the Greek students. I save the duckling. I save the duckling for my own benefit. The duckling is saved. It made me smile, and I think it helped the atmosphere in the classroom.
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