What's Up

I have very few interesting thoughts these days, much less interesting activities. Here are a few things I have been doing:

• Grading
• Enjoying team-teaching with my friend Todd
• Editing Sam's tenure portfolio
• Hosting an informal "just stop by for a drink" party that I thought would be over at about 11:30, but that lasted until 2:30 a.m.
• Editing Sam's revised tenure portfolio
• Wondering if I should let my hair go gray or rage, rage against the dying of the light (the lightening of the dye?)
• Purchasing meticulously selected folders and tabs for Sam's revised tenure portfolio
• Trying to figure out why my W-2 says I made 33% more than my salary last year. (Would that that were true!)
• Crafting an urgent-but-not-shrill email lobbying for access to research databases
• Editing Sam's revised, expanded tenure portfolio
• Filming two videos for my church's fourth birthday party, which were put together by the MC (who fixed my mistakes)
• Retracing my steps in a failed effort to find a beautiful bracelet that I was given for Christmas, but that tragically came unlatched and fell off my wrist yesterday . . . :( [very sad about that one]
• Making chili also for the church's birthday party, but not entering it in the chili cook-off contest (too scary. The contest, not the chili.)
• Returning folders and tabs for Sam's revised tenure portfolio, and purchasing an alternative suitable for the revised, expanded tenure portfolio
• Trying to write recommendation letters for two students for the same scholarship without overlapping. At least there are 3 scholarships, so they could both win.
• Staying much warmer than last winter, since heat prices are normal again.
• Plotting and scheming