An Ongoing, Erratic Diary
Tomorrow, classes start. Meep!!
Things I must do today:
- Create my syllabus and ask Adele to make 23 (students) * 4 (classes)
copies for me
- Attend orientation from 9-4
- Read and crit two stories for workshop tonight
Things I should do today:
- Take in some stuff to make my cube more mine; I hate gray fuzzy walls
- Take Jacques's and Leah's novels in with me and do crits of them
- Print out "Esthely Blue" and mail it to Ploughshares
- Pick up temporary checks from the University credit union and pay
bills
Things I should do tomorrow:
- Put together my new aquarium (I was going to just get a fishbowl,
after much longing staring at the aquariums I couldn't quite afford, but
then Kevin offered to make one my belated birthday present; huzzah for
birthdays! Now I just need to get it ready, and then choose some nice
freshwater fish (and fiddler crabs :-)
- Get some groceries; Roshani and Tom are coming to visit from
Thursday-Sunday, and my kitchen is still pretty spotty; I think I have
milk, hard cider, butter, eggs and leftovers in the fridge. This is sad.
- Clean up the big mess of potting soil and dead plant matter in the
sunroom.
- Teach. I'm teaching four sections of the same class this fall,
English 2010, with twenty-three students in each. I teach Monday,
Wednesday, Friday, and have colloquium and office hours on those days,
which means that unless I decide to audit a lit class (a possibility), I
don't need to come to campus on Tu/Th. This is very good, since I think
I'll get more work done that way. We'll see.
Sorry for the to-do-list entry...but I've got a lot to do in the next few
days, and I don't want to drop any balls. On the plus side, yesterday I
picked up a few more plants, including lemon basil, spicy globe basil and
purple ruffles basil. I also got an asparagus fern and a ficus (sp?)
tree. Pretty neat. :-) I've also decided to put the tv in the closet for
now; Jed suggested putting a cloth over it, but the place where it gets
the best reception blocks the door to the sunroom, so at least while R&T
are visiting, I want it out of the way.
I also came home around 7-ish, did dishes, talked to Roshani, did e-mail
and went to sleep, all on my ownsome. Didn't drag Kevin over (in fact, he
called and asked if I wanted to come over for dinner and I actually said
no(!)); didn't mope at anyone over the phone. I was feeling very proud of
myself. :-) (I then had weirdo dreams all night and woke up feeling
really tired, but that's okay. Baby steps.)
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