2/8: inceptive -sc-
I love the Latin -sc- infix, which signals that something is in the process of happening but isn't completed yet. Crescent, rubescent, iridescent!
2/7: having an excuse
...to look at the Greek of the Odyssey. A student in Myth class had asked a question about some of the Greek in Book 5, so it was a pleasure today to dip into it, see what the Greek was doing, and have some new-to-me thoughts.
2/6: working on two holidays
Now that the winter holiday is over, we're applying a protective coating to the 114 wooden blocks which we painted shades of green, silver, and gold for our cat-proof Christmas tree. It will take a little longer than a week to do, since each side needs two coats, and on weekdays we can only manage to do one coat, but it feels nice to have this stage of the project underway.
And this evening I finished writing Valentine's Day cards.
2/5: thinking about
...the katabasis in Nicole Kornher-Stace's Archivist Wasp in comparison to the katabasis in Vergil's Aeneid.
2/3: collaging
...words from Dickens' Little Dorrit, Woolf's Orlando, and Thilly's History of Philosophy into a sort of little triptych.
2/2: letting myself
...read Books 5, 6, and 7 of the Odyssey as I prepped for class. I could have taught the class without re-reading, since I've read and taught those books so many times now. Because I especially love them, however, I wanted to give myself the treat of reading them and having new thoughts about them. It means having 2 hours less to do some other tasks, but I think it was worth it.
And also letting myself read the first issue of the Telemachus comic in the morning. Not at all necessary for work, but related, and also worth it.
2/1: getting a meeting switched
...from in-person to remote for tomorrow morning. The roads may be icy, so the switch takes pressure off the "should I drive in to school, should I not" double-guessing game.
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