The specifics don't matter! It's just SO NICE to not have to jump right into the week. I'll catch up with grading (I can dream!)
I took myself outside to prevent myself from falling into a "funk" (as my dad would call it) about the UAW strike (now in its fifth week--the workers are getting $500 a week and that can only go so far) and the war in Palestine (on top of all the horrors of history and occupation).
I spent hours in the backyard raking and in the garden tidying with Max, then a blissful massage visit from RR, a chatty, catch-up visit from JL replete with carrot cupcakes and champagne, a soup I invented with butternut squash, spinach, and almonds, and a depressing but so-good book (Emma Cline's The Guest) made up the rest of my day.
(Somehow although I spent hours outside with no casualties, I got a yellowjacket sting inside the house.)
Pic: Post-dinner jinks with Big A, Huck, Max, and Nu.
7 comments:
We don't have a fall break-- the students really need one, though, and they wend up missing the entire week of thanksgiving, and it's a struggle that KEEPS HAPPENING. I loved The Guest and really couldn't put it down.
Cute picture.
Today is Thanksgiving in Canada, so happy Thanksgiving/ fall break to you!
My husband always laments the lack of fall break on his schedule. It means you go-go-go until Thanksgiving and then there's CRAZY PANTS time until the end of the semester. *sigh* I'm so glad you get a breather, though!
Sarah--Absolutely agree that students need a break right about now. I think we'll all be better for it.
Gillian, Thanks :)
Nicole: Thanks you! HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO YOU!!
NGS: I get what Dr. BB is saying--that sounds frenetic right up till the end. ("crazy pants time" lol)
That soup sounds good.
I read Emma Cline's The Girls which you could also describe that way. Maybe it's her schtick.
StephLove--Yes, The Girls was so good! This has a contemporary setting and I was so depressed because it depicts how we continue to serve patriarchy despite how far we've come.
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