Archive for October, 2009

Dream a little dream

Today’s day so far:
6:45: I get up to put the Snork Maiden’s soccer socks in the dryer and drink a glass of Emergen-C with a coffee chaser. 
7:15: Stubb and the Snork Maiden get up, get dressed, and make breakfast.
8:00-9:30: Warmup and muddy soccer game, ending in a tie, 0-0. 
9:45-11:00: Showers and an early lunch for all.  [...]

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The letter

Here in my second full year at SA, the firsts that used to happen every week (sometimes every day) have slowed to a trickle–but this week I wrote my first two college recommendations!  These were for the two boys I really hoped would ask me for recs, because each worked hard to master skills that didn’t [...]

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The year of the flood

Well, if Sunday night is when I have the time and the inclination to update the blog, then so be it.  Only problem is that Sunday nights I feel more like blogging about my weekends than about one of the various workplace and writing topics that crop up in my thoughts during the week. 
Here’s one, [...]

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While England sleeps

I’m composing this in the evening, right about the time I should be falling asleep, but I feel the need for a little bit of processing of the weekend before I go to bed.
On the one hand, I didn’t do a lot of work this weekend.  I completed much of my prep for Monday on [...]

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