4/30: having a day

...to deal with a few loose ends work-wise and home-wise before the next round of assignments comes in.

4/29: having a meeting

...that I was nervous about.  I think I spoke well and smartly, though I was also my usual awkward self.  And now it's over.

4/28: spending most of the day's energy

...on the Myth students' final altered page assignments.  It's been interesting to see how this project has worked this semester.

4/27: trying smoked paprika

...in peanut butter cookies.  I hadn't baked cookies since December, so it was fun to make a quick batch and test the paprika addition (which I had read about online).  I also added cinnamon, so the taste is overall more complicated.  Too complicated?  We'll see.  I'm going to make a "straight" batch tomorrow to compare.

4/26: finishing my day's grading

...at school, so I didn't have to work in the evening.  Instead, Chris popped some popcorn, and we watched a movie that we knew was unlikely to be good but hoped would un-good in a fun way.

4/25: 3 good things

A smooth appointment at the dentist's office.

Good final Myth classes, with a format for students' responses to one another's altered pages that worked well.

A reading and discussion of The Skull by Jon Klassen with some students.  I think they all enjoyed it, and some of them very much so.

4/24: noticing

...last night that the ants are back in our walls--not a good thing.  But the Terminix people were already scheduled to come this morning for a quarterly visit, so that was perfect timing, and they were really nice as I explained to them that we wanted to take care of the ants but limit the chemicals elsewhere. 

4/23: the last long Tuesday

...of the semester.