This and that

[luzula]

1) I was asked out of the blue to do a series of posts on the comm poetree on reading poetry out loud and listening to it (on the basis of a post I'd written about recording poetry for Librivox). I don't feel that this is something I know a lot about, but I was happy to talk enthusiastically about it! If you want to check out the posts, they're here.

2) Held the first lecture on a new course today, and it went well. A student came up to me afterwards and said it was great, and she felt like she understood everything even though she flunked the exam on the previous course! I wonder if students know how happy they make you when they say things like that. In tomorrow's lecture I will define the Riemann integral!

3) I have a new red pen for graaaading, and it almost makes me enjoy it. See, you can erase it even though it's a pen and not a pencil! It is so cool! *marvels at the advance of technology*

4) I heartily recommend the mushroom soup recipe that sage recently posted. Although being me, of course I couldn't actually follow the recipe but added whatever vegetables I had around (a squash and leftover boiled cabbage) as well as black beans. The leftover boiled cabbage was from making rice-and-ground-meat-wrapped-in-boiled-cabbage-leaves (I have no idea what this is called in English). There is a cringe-worthy dirty pun on the Swedish name of this dish, and my boyfriend gleefully makes that pun at least five times while he is cooking the dish.

5) Am very busy right now, what with teaching + graaaading + dSSS + Yuletide + environmental volunteer work. I'm also beginning to stress out about my dSSS and Yuletide stories, and I am worrying that my drafts suck. Augh. Right, I should go work on one of them right now.

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[jjhunter]

The responses aren't going anywhere -- guilt thyself not. ;o)