2/28: internet radio play

A student sent me a link to "A Drop in the Ocean," an Odyssey-inspired radio play taking place on a submarine, and it was great to listen to it today in my office.

2/27: two chapters

...of The Lost Books of the Odyssey by Zachary Mason, which I'm preparing to teach tomorrow.  I don't think I love the whole book (will need to spend more time with it), but I really like these two chapters--"A Night in the Woods" and "The Book of Winter"--and I hope the students will enjoy reading/thinking about them, too.

2/26: planning

...the upcoming assignments for the picturebook version of the Iliad we'll be reading next in the Trojan War class.

2/25: posted

Oh the Trollope commentary for The Three Clerks is finally complete and published!  I love Trollope, and I enjoyed reading and thinking about The Three Clerks a lot--but the work on this novel (which started in spring 2015!) got complicated because of some wrinkles with a student in summer 2015, and then there was a ripple-effect of delays, both practical and psychological.  But now it's done.

2/24: a company of three

...of us at quiet writing this afternoon.

And while I was writing I had a little (start of a) break-through connecting Twombly's Iliam series and Alice Oswald's Memorial.

2/23: complimented

...by a colleague on my use of my turn signal while exiting a roundabout!

2/22: revisiting the slow professor

I read The Slow Professor over the summer and discussed it with some colleagues in the fall.  Today I met with a different group of colleagues to talk about the book, and it was great to hear their thoughts and enjoy an hour of engaged conversation together.

2/21: working

...at home for an hour or so this morning before heading to school.