Sewing tonight for my librarians, who are getting ready to go back to work-in-the-library instead of work-from-home, whenever the governor decides we’ve entered phase 3. It could be as soon as June 1 (limited service, checking out items placed on hold, for example, no patrons hanging out in the library), which means they need masks […]
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I may have stayed up until 1 a.m. prepping for Kavi’s socially distanced birthday party tomorrow. (Kevin helped, or it would’ve been at least an hour later.) I realized, as I was heading out to a second grocery store (because the first had closed early due to Covid and didn’t note it on their website,
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Even though the U.S. has been so non-compliant with shelter-in-place that we are now facing a much longer stretch of it than might have been necessary, which is deeply frustrating, please don’t feel that those of you who have been responsible and sacrificed to stay home for the last two months have wasted your efforts.
Grades are in. Whew. That was…a semester. Not gonna lie, there were times I felt like we were all gonna crawl across that finish line.
One more poem, from several years ago. Fraught In two hours outside today, three strangers wished me a happy mother’s day; I thanked them, casually enough. I am actually a mother this year, and for the past seven, though not for many grey and grieving years before. They could not know my situation, but I
I have to say, I think Anand is learning more at home being unschooled than he was in school, and is much happier. Which isn’t to say that he isn’t missing some things that could use more disciplined teaching, and I’m hoping Kevin and I will have more time to do that this summer after the semester’s
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Aw. The students have started handing in their final projects, and some of them are accompanied with very sweet notes: “Thank you so much for a great semester. I’m sure transitioning online was not an easy task, but you handled it remarkably well. I appreciate how understanding you were of all of our schedules. Have
Just got my formal reappointment letter for next year — as NTT faculty, it wasn’t guaranteed, so I’m glad that I still have a job. So much sympathy to those faculty who haven’t been reappointed; our union has been putting a lot of pressure on administration to reappoint NTT faculty, but I know many higher
When your student’s final presentations make you teary, you know the semester has gone on too long. Good thing we can turn off the video on Zoom.
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Folks, I need to do some fundraising for the SLF fairly urgently if we’re going to be able to keep giving out our grants, and I am very low on capacity for fundraising. If you’re able to help me with putting together a short campaign, let me know? It’d mean things like: – requesting donated
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