12/16: an early email

...from a colleague whom I haven't met in person but whose ceramics I admired in the campus window gallery this semester.  I wrote to him last night to let him know how much I liked them, and he wrote me a very nice thank-you this morning.

12/15: slide by slide

When writing the directions for the Vergil students' recorded PowerPoint presentations, I gave them a slide-by-slide checklist of what they needed to include.  I think it helped them stay on track (no wondering on their part what I would/wouldn't expect), and it's helped me as I'm grading them.

12/14: folding

...pamphlets.  I needed the repetitive hand-work.

12/13: enjoying

...a cold-weather walk and thinking about good things that were part of 2025.  The year has held a lot of difficult and disturbing things, and it felt important to try to formulate a list of 10 good things that happened.

12/12: changing

 ...a framing box in a pamphlet to 2 horizontal lines, one running across the top and the other across the bottom.  The switch seems to let the pamphlet breathe.

12/11: learning

...that grades are due one day later next week than I had thought.

12/10: a mouse button

...made and gifted to me by a Latin student who remembered that I like Codrington's Mus Rusticus version of the Aesopian fable.

12/9: pink

...in the sky and on the water as I drove home.  The calm of it was welcome, since my school day ended pretty badly.