On to week two of spring break, except that this week my NCC and New RU classes both meet–it’s just Starfleet Academy that’s on break. Still, that makes a big difference. Grading and planning have to play a bigger role this week: upon returning to SA, I’ve got to give back papers and also be [...]
Archive for March, 2008
28 Mar
Scribble
Today I experienced something rare–good writing energy that carried over into good teaching energy in my New RU class. I met up with a friend at the main branch of our city’s public library to write in the morning, and had a pretty useful session of revising and developing a draft. We didn’t have a [...]
26 Mar
Ay, there’s the rub
Big entry in the Fun column today, with an hour-long massage by the Psychic Masseuse. As I mentioned, I hadn’t seen her in a while. It was great to catch up and exchange news while she expertly applied her entire body weight to my pressure points. Her son is in the same grade I am [...]
25 Mar
Uh-oh
My nifty table is showing me that so far, my spring break activities are clustering heavily in the Organizing section. I can think of several reasons for this: There is a lot of organizing to do. The house is a mess, and I’ve put off a lot of organizational things (doctor appointments, tax stuff, etc.) [...]
24 Mar
People are living there
In Dan Savage’s memoir The Kid, he and his boyfriend, Terry, are completing their application paperwork to the agency that will help them adopt a baby, and they are temporarily stymied by the requirement that they produce a letter of support from a neighbor. They’ve had no trouble getting letters from family and friends, but [...]
23 Mar
Trouble is my business
I told you that I’d divided my spring break plans into the categories Writing, Organizing, Teaching, Fun, and Writing Biz. Writing Biz, as may not be instantly apparent to everyone, is everything that a writer has to do (or should do) other than actually writing whatever she writes. This might include query letters, grant applications, submissions, [...]
22 Mar
The daring book(s) for girls
Slept until 9 a.m. this morning, when I got a phone call from my sister, who needed some emergency babysitting because her dog had suddenly become violently ill. (Stepped on a bee, it turns out. Allergic to bees, it turns out. Seems to be responding to treatment. Fingers crossed.) Came home and did some Organizing [...]
21 Mar
Cool, calm, and collected
I came home this afternoon to a quiet, if messy, house: Stubb was off today, and he and the Snork Maiden went to our regional amusement park with two of the C. Fam. (Mom C. and the Young’un, who’s a bit younger than the Snork Maiden). I’m so glad that the Snork Maiden gets a day of goofy, [...]
21 Mar
Detours, part 2
Just popping in to say that I think we have vanquished the lice. I have been going through the Snork Maiden’s hair with (literally) a fine-tooth comb every night, and at this point I’m just not finding anything but extremely clean hair. She still feels mildly itchy, but apparently the Nix can do that. I continue to be hyper-aware [...]
15 Mar
Detours
Well, the wind was pretty well out of my sails on Friday. I didn’t sleep at all well Thursday night, and woke up with a sore throat. I ended up ditching the fun evening we had planned, and most loathsome of all, the poor Snork Maiden turned out to have (shudder) head lice. I’d been dreading [...]
