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.
8/31: a good switch
...in my school-morning breakfast routine. A batch of baked oatmeal with blueberries can last all week. It keeps me more satisfied than cereal, and it has less sugar (and more protein) than the chocolate flaxseed muffins I sometimes make.
8/30: hand-feeding
...Emma the Cat his pill. He is very good about taking it that way, and I am grateful every day that it isn't a contest of wills.
8/29: thinking a little
...about museums in children's literature, prompted by a student's observation yesterday, and enjoying coming up with some new thoughts.
8/28: squeezing in
...some bookbinding. I went to bed thinking about a possible solution to a teaching conundrum (what bindings to include or not in a course), and I woke up wanting to see if a new-to-me binding would be manageable (it was). I also thought of a way to incorporate discussion of some other bindings through examples I'll bring in.
8/27: considering
...pages and how they work. Students brought in interesting pages that they found and had good things to say about their own offerings and other people's.
8/26: educators
A high school friend / now school administrator had his final first-day-back-to-school. It was great to take some time to think about him, his career, and how lucky students have been to have him on their side.
A former student / now teacher sent me a card with some amazingly kind words about the time she spent with me during her undergraduate studies. It was wonderful to think about her and those days--and to know that she is doing good work in the world with her own students.
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