10/15: lots of literature
...today. Reading about the Book of Revelation, finishing Daphne by Will Boast, starting The Latinist by Mark Prins, listening to Lindsay Ellis' Truth of the Divine, watching a production of Lesia Ukrainka's Cassandra. Boast's novel got me pretty angry (I definitely don't recommend it), I was disappointed by the production of Cassandra, and it's too soon to know what I think about The Latinist, but I'm still grateful to have spent time with so many written words today in one way or another.
10/14: discovering
...A Dictionary of Similes by Frank J. Wilstach, published in 1916 and so safely in the public domain. I'm excited to use it in future projects.
10/13: visiting
...Collins Creek with Chris. It had been quite some time since we'd gone on an outing together.
10/12: staying a little later
...than usual at school to proctor the midterm for a student who couldn't take it at the set time earlier in the day. We worked quietly in the room--me on Greek, the student on Latin--and I appreciated being in a space both calm and intent.
10/11: getting an idea
...about how to frame an assignment for the first-year students. It had been weighing on my mind recently, and I had gotten a little frustrated because, even though I need to finalize it soon, I seemed to have hit a wall in thinking about it. Then this morning, while I was doing my usual getting-ready-in-the-morning things, a solution came to me. Hurray!
10/10: finding out
...that I don't have to proctor a make-up exam tomorrow afternoon after all. If I had had to, it would have been fine. But it's nicer not to have to.
10/9: whew
I finished a big chunk of grading, grade-calculating, and assignment-returning this evening. I'm still not "caught up," but I'm not woefully behind, so I'm going to count that as a good thing. Another good thing: the student grades I calculated were very solid! I'm very glad I gave them the chance to revise one of the substantial assignments for this first half of the course: it made a real difference, and I think (hope?) the revision process helped their learning.
10/8: smiling at a coincidence
I was doing some grocery shopping in the early evening. The store was nearly empty: most people don't choose Saturday night as their grocering time. When I got to the aisle where I was going to pick up some liquid aminos, someone else was there. And he was holding a bottle of liquid aminos. What are the chances of two people on a Saturday night in suburban Arkansas reaching for the same not-often-bought-in-suburban-Arkansas item just a few seconds apart from one another? It made me laugh, and him too.
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