9/29: finding
...a Daphne-inspired poem I really like, "Waking" by Margaret Kaufman. And looking at some Daphne-related art. And generally thinking about Daphne today.
9/28: discussing
...Ancient Greek drama's meditation on bodies with my freshman seminar students. They had good things to say about that and about all of today's topics for pulling together this part of the course.
9/27: being grateful
...for my Greek class this semester. They had their first test this afternoon, and it was wonderful to sit there, quietly working while they were taking it, and just feel how good they are, as people and as students.
9/25: sleeping in
I used to rely on "natural rising"--not setting an alarm--on weekends during the school year and everyday during the summer. But Tilde the Cat's situation means that we have to keep more regular hours: we need to follow a consistent schedule of feeding and insulin shots. So I haven't slept in since she came home from the cat hospital in early June. Yesterday I asked Chris if he could do the morning shift with Tilde so that I could have a day with natural rising, and he did. It felt weird to have fewer hours to do things in the morning! But I needed the rest and to be freed from the clock a bit.
9/24: enforcing
...a Saturday without schoolwork. I usually try to do that, but recently I've needed to do things on Saturdays just to stay afloat. But today I really needed to shift focus. Chris and I watched a lot of Ink Master, but I also walked for an hour on the ridge, texted back-and-forth with a friend, made fried rice (twice! for both lunch and dinner!), baked some walnut meringue cookies with Fiori di Sicilia flavoring, swept the house while listening to a novel, and ordered a bunch of postcards before the sale at Moo.com ends.
9/23: a colleague and friend
...who talked with me for a couple of hours on Friday afternoon when the situation at work just felt like it was more than I could handle.
9/22: spending a few minutes
...with the sky at sunrise and sunset, and with the campus labyrinth at midday.
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