How’s teaching going? Are you okay? I am loving this teaching gig. I seriously believe that I teach the 200 most brilliant, delightful sophomores in the whole world. They are lovely people. They have fine, fine ideas. They are almost all kind to each other. They smile when they come to class. At least half of them are actively eager to talk about things related to what we’re reading. It’s so, so good. With full time work, a few things may be falling by the wayside a little bit (things like cooking and grocery shopping, reading for pleasure [i totally remember that], visiting with friends, making/taking phone calls, watching movies [staying up till 10 is a new goal now and then], like that), but I still see my family every day (like while we’re scrubbing the floor together or riding to football/soccer/cross-country practice).
What did I miss when I wasn’t in class last time/for a week/ever, yet? Check the website.
What’s for dinner? Mondays – Sandwiches. Tuesdays – Tacos. Wednesdays – Pasta. Thursdays – Grilled Something. Fridays – Takeout. Saturdays – We’ll deal with that when we get there. Sundays – Seriously? You people want dinner EVERY DAY?
How’s Kid 1 doing at college? She’s brilliant there as she is everywhere. She told me the other day that going summer term was like learning to ride a tricycle, and now, in fall, it’s a lot like someone put her on a bike. In traffic. She plans to own the economics and theatre classes and I plan to force her to have fun (I’m thinking she needs a semester in London, and RIGHT AWAY).
How’s the writing going? How kind of you to ask. It’s… something. Patiently waiting, mostly. I have two things I’m incubating, with a total word count between them of half a book. (That’s code for “Neither is very developed, but I can find a way to put a shine on the situation since I don’t have a great track record of making time to write this past month.”) Schedules will shake out. Timing will become one of my talents again. I will climb out of this haze of exhaustion and carve out 30 writing minutes a day once again. Soon, I bet.
What are we doing today? We are grocery shopping. We are cleaning. We are going to Kid 2’s fiddle concert in the park. We are hitting Salt Lake Comic Con, all of us – the whole family. (No, that isn’t a joke. That is a PLAN.)
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Thanks for asking. How about you?