6/8: reaching the last

...in my pile of to-be-read issues of the New York Times Book Review.  I hadn't been keeping up with them weekly during the spring semester, so reading one a day has been a nice way to enjoy more leisurely summer mornings.

6/7: all four

...cats lying around me on the bed.

6/6: making crumpets

...for lunch.  I found a no-yeast recipe online (here) and used some credit card points I had to buy a set of crumpet rings.  Chris helped when it came to getting them out of their rings to turn them over.  Success!

6/5: a very nice text

...from a friend about my way with words.

6/4: working on

...Heron Tree.  We're reading through volume 12 submissions, and I picked the words that will be on the cover of the volume 11 collection (one word from each poem):  branch, bread, cargoes, door, echo, equilibrium, expedition, faces, figures, filaments, forest, gown, grass, haze, history, impression, jar, lesson, light, lightning, line, miles, night, path, quilts, relief, roofs, room, search, shade, shell, shoes, summit, surface, translation, variations, violets, visitors.

6/3: connections

A Teams meeting with a student to do some Greek, a sweet message from a neighbor, two pieces of mail from friends, various texts with family and friends, and an email from another friend.

6/2: inside / outside

The morning inside:  listening to a lecture about Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, Harryette Mullen, and Sappho.

The afternoon outside:  visiting the cascade and creek at Woolly Hollow (a long deferred trip).

6/1: submitting

...my paper abstract before lunch (today was the due-date).  It wasn't something that I had to do, but it was something that I wanted to do.  Given the flurry of the past 2 months, it recently seemed like I might not get it done--and though that would have been understandable, I would have felt like I let myself down.  I'm glad not to have let myself down.