"We used to think...when I was an unsifted girl...that words were weak and cheap. Now I don't know of anything so mighty." -Emily Dickinson
Saturday, November 30, 2024
One day early...
Friday, November 29, 2024
Here comes Christmas...
Thanksgiving 2024
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
Thanksgiving Break Grading: DONE!
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Smallest size they make...
Monday, November 25, 2024
Fall clean-up...
25 November 2024: Knocked out one of my least-favorite chores today: the fall yard clean-up. I had planned on doing only some of it, but ended up doing it all. I did somehow run over just the right (wrong) rock while mowing over some leaves and wrecked the mower blade. But that's a problem for Springtime Heidi.
Also knocked out the ENGL 307 Response Papers (except for the one that came in a bit late). Steady progress on grading--and more quickly than I planned.
Sunday, November 24, 2024
"Boogie Days"
24 November 2024: "Jamiroquai and Mark Twain also said, 'um, don't not do fun stuff 'cause your dad got scared one time.'" --Bob to Louise in tonight's episode of Bob's Burgers.
Laughed out loud at that line (a call-back). Perfect accompaniment to finishing grading the last few ENGL 301 Annotated Bibliographies. Shew!
Saturday, November 23, 2024
She demands a break...
Friday, November 22, 2024
Thanksgiving Break: we made it!
22 November 2024: After a long and packed week, I am so excited to have made it to Thanksgiving Break. Feels like a victory!
I don't think I have ever had as much grading over a break as I do right now: ENGL 204 essays (26 of them, each at least 5 pages, ENGL 301 Annotated Bibliographies (19 of these, each of them 15-20 pages), ENGL 307/507 Response Papers (22 of them, each at least 3 pages), and 23 GWST papers (each of them at least four pages). It's wild.
But I know that I've got this. It will be a pleasant week. And I am so grateful that I can get so much grading done during a week with no classes and that grading is the hardest part of teaching--and that is almost laughable when you think about the hardest parts of other folks' jobs. So, yeah: I'm embracing gratitude.
A little music for this post--the song that was playing at Sheetz while I waited for my order this evening. It's on my all-time favorites list and you know this silly, old, no-rhythm nerd was doing just the tiniest bit of foot-tapping/dancing in public.
Thursday, November 21, 2024
"the deceptively simple goal of trying to find people who love you..."
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
"You know, making brownies for a bake sale..."
20 November 2024: The post's title comes from my sister's reply when I asked how her birthday was going. She added, "Does anything say 'Mom in her 40s more than that?'" We laughed about that and then reassured each other that "age is just a number" and then laughed at that.
She might be 44, but she's forever and always my baby sister.
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Conferences, Incidents, and grading...
Monday, November 18, 2024
Another win!
Sunday, November 17, 2024
The Tempest
Saturday, November 16, 2024
Anora
Friday, November 15, 2024
"Cheek to Cheek"
Thursday, November 14, 2024
First home game...
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Feeling a little spikey...
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Working smarter, not harder...
12 November 2024: Took both girls to the vet today for their annual appointments. Jo was due at the beginning of October, Veronica in mid-November and I said, "This is foolishness" and booked them together. They did just fine and we were home from our 9:00 appointment by 9:30.
Now onto the rest of this stressful, busy day in this stressful, busy week. A bit easier to face it all with this item checked off the list.
Monday, November 11, 2024
Light at the end of the day...
Sunday, November 10, 2024
Heretic
10 November 2024: Heretic isn't exactly an enjoyable movie, but it is satisfying and smart. Squint hard enough and you find some comfort after all that has happened this week. It's a kind of comfort that comes from realizing how exausting and damanging shitty dudes with overinflated egos who have ideas about faith or (or a lack of faith) are--and how much when love it when a woman calls them out on it.