4/29: long but successful
My afternoon and evening, that is. I had to keep the Myth classes to a tight schedule so that we could touch on all the day's topics. It's the end of the semester, so there's no time for later follow-up if something is left hanging. I managed to do a decent job of setting up questions/activities that were clear enough, scalable enough, and thought-provoking enough. And then a student gave a presentation on their research project, and so many people came that we had to move to a bigger room. The student did a good job, and the audience seemed pleased. When I got home, I had to do some frustrating (and unexpected work) on some advising issues, and it delayed me from starting in on my own work. But once I did, I got a full draft written of the final writing prompts for the Myth class. I closed up shop much later than usual, but I think it was worth it.
4/28: having new thoughts
...about Ovid's stories of Orpheus and Pygmalion and how they fit into the program of the Metamorphoses.
4/27: because of the long post
...I wrote on Teams last night, I was able to spend this afternoon and this evening grading. I am now caught up on grading, and that's a nice place to be as we enter the last week of classes tomorrow.
4/26: writing a long Teams post
...for the students about the endgame in the Myth class. I prefer not working on Saturdays if I can help it, but in this case it will help me to have this done.
4/25: mentioning
...volleyball to a student I had advised when they were a freshman (they're now a senior). I had remembered their talking about volleyball (and how they weren't going to play it in college) in our earliest conversations, and I wanted to show that I still remembered who they were. And then they said something like, "Well, you'll never guess...." The student had studied in France and while there played on a professional team, even in international competition! That was fun to hear about, and I never would have if I hadn't pulled out that little memory.
4/24: Facebook connections
...with some of my parent's students from the time when I was really young. I don't know what to think about big tech these days, but I'm grateful for the chance to have ongoing connections to people from my early years. Today I heard from two of them.
4/23: more Redon
For the past few years I've shown my Myth class one of Redon's Phaethon paintings after we've read Ovid's Phaethon story in the Metamorphoses. I also mention to the students that Redon did multiple treatments of the myth throughout his career. Today a student came to office hours to talk through several of those other treatments, and it was a treat to spend time with Redon's work in that way.
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