1/31: having time
...to try a new recipe for dinner (creamy spicy miso pasta; recipe here) because school was closed due to weather.
1/30: turning out okay
...prints for my Valentine's Day cards, that is. I had been stressing out about them, but they arrived today and are really nice. I also stressed out because the colored envelopes I ordered to go with them arrived last week and had to be sent back because they were the wrong, wrong color. But some reckoning this evening shows me that I have plenty of envelopes on hand in pink and purple shades. I don't know why I tied myself up in a bit of a knot about all this, but I'm glad the knot is now undone.
1/28: a new Eno
Well, new-for-me at least. Music for Airports is pretty much the only album I've listened to at all in the past 3 years. I love it and am glad I can carry it around with me on my phone. I was getting ready to play it this afternoon as I tidied my campus office. Then I thought: why not get another Brian Eno album to listen to? So I downloaded his second album in the Ambient series and listened to it. Then I listened to it again in the evening, as I was working through some photo-editing at home.
1/27: faster on Friday night
I needed to set up a bunch of assignments in Microsoft Teams for my students, and during the school-week the wait-times during loading seemed long. I decided to try tonight from home, and it went much quicker. Less overall traffic to slow things down? Whatever the reason, I'm glad that something that I thought would take an hour took 20 minutes instead.
1/26: noticing
...new things about the opening books of the Odyssey as I prepared for today's class. One of my favorite fresh observations: how Athena at the end of book 2 both compares and contrasts with Eurycleia at the end of book 1.
1/25: at home, at school
At home: smelling the blooming winter honeysuckle!
At school: enjoying the smarts of a 2-line Latin poem by Martial.
1/24: dolphins
...in the art we looked at in Myth class today. Two of the images were ones I found and used for the first time last year. I like them a lot, and I was excited when I remembered them for this year. The students did a really nice job of talking about them too.
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