10/8: joining

...Chris' tree walk with his students this morning.  I didn't mean to.  I was walking on campus to put up posters for an event, and I ran into Chris with his group, so I tagged along for a bit since we were going in the same direction.

10/7: enjoying

...reading my students' posts about Riordan's wordcraft in The Lightning Thief and The Sea of Monsters.

10/6: thinking

...about this year's holiday card and working on some possibilities so that I don't get stressed next month when it's time to settle on a choice and order prints.

10/5: returning

...to a "no-schoolwork Saturday."  I really needed a break from it today, even though there's more than plenty to do.  I walked, collaged, read, watched TV with Chris, listened to an audiobook, and wrote some postcards and notes.

10/4: doing

...my own assignments so that students have examples of responses. This way they get to see one possible way of going about it, and I get to find out what the assignment feels like from the other end.  As they worked on their in-class writing today, I enjoyed putting together my sample responses for an assignment due on Monday.

10/3: an email

...from a student who had a very creative idea for participating in my ongoing altering epics project.

10/2: recovering time

...since my school laptop got replaced.  Its cursor had started jumping around:  I'd be typing a sentence, and then all of a sudden my cursor would be in the middle of a sentence I had already typed 5 lines ago.  Everything basically needed to get typed 2 or 3 times, and I needed to do a lot of proofreading to make sure I caught all the glitches.  Now that the jumping cursor is no longer part of my life, I'm surprised at how quickly typing goes.

10/1: chatting

...with a student before his quiz and seeing him smile when I mentioned that I went to the same college that his sister is graduating from this year.  We had some common ground.