My tech writing course opens tomorrow, and it is ready to go! I also cleaned all of (the inside of) my house this weekend. I did not finish everything I wanted to finish this weekend, but my school stuff was priority. My mom saw the house today for the first Read more…
Today I cleaned up my house and I cleaned up my university course. I also noticed a gap (related to cover letters) and found something to fill it. Tomorrow, I will need to scan a few pages of another text and add a reading. Brief soapbox: Knowing how to write Read more…
It’s raining, and I have blisters on my toes–from the cold floors. I honestly thought those were last experienced in Jane Austen novels or Little House on the Prairie, but nope. Here, too. A student has asked me a great question, and so I am poking around the internets, on Read more…
When I am feeling anxious I plan out knitting projects. I sort through my bins or bags until I come up with yarn I want to use for something, then I scroll through Ravelry for a couple of hours looking at patterns, projects, and notes, hoping for the right combination Read more…
You know what I hate most about owning a home? How all of the sexy stuff like rugs and curtains and rose gardens and pea gravel beds is always and forever interminably on hold while totally unsexy things like baseboards and potholes and refrigerator compressors take priority. (I’m willing to Read more…
the tiredness was a precursor to a crumminess, which has descended upon me like a bowling ball. I don’t feel good. That said, I tried to get a minimum of work done so I wouldn’t fall too far behind. Also, meant to just start “Muzzled” by Gabriela Denise Frank last Read more…
I’m sleepy as hell, y’all so this will be quick. I’m already having some thoughts about my reading lists and I only have one more week to tidy up my university class, so I’ve been doing a lot of teachering in small, unimpressive bits. I’m also starting to get a Read more…
Today, I scrubbed the kitchen floor for a couple of hours, and then the weekend was over. I also (re) read The Big One (especially nightmare inducing now that I live here again). Plus three lyric essays: What Didn’t happen, by Anika Fajardo Dissociation (The Natural Order), by Nicole Walker Read more…
As part of establishing this first “challenge” or more aptly titled “project,” I said I would visit the discussions in my classes every work day, by which I meant Monday through Friday. That doesn’t mean I didn’t work today. I read Jill Christman’s “Paddling the Middle Fork: A Love Story Read more…
I watched I, Tonya tonight and had many feelings. I saw the neighborhoods I lived in and the people I knew in the portrayal. I don’t feel adequate to discuss all my thoughts, but goddamn my heart broke for her when she begged the judge to just send her to Read more…