All The Time in the World

I would have blogged more last week, but this introvert used up all her words and had none left over. I finally, finally finished All The Grading. It was brutal. Now it's time to start on writing papers of my own. Which will also be brutal.

I'm on my last Jane Austen novel, Persuasion. Turns out Miss Austen was quite the writer. I've really enjoyed all of her books (in different ways). Please remind me of this in a week when I start writing the biggest research paper of all time.

What else? Life has been moving quickly. I've been assigned two classes to teach in the Fall (!!) and I've signed up to take two classes as well. Are you ready? Drum roll, please...........Virginia Woolf and The American Novel. Again with the reading non-stop but apparently I can't help myself.

Nat King Cole presented Digital Story Telling to my classes last week, to get them started on their last unit. The only way it would have been better is if we could have gone for drinks after.

But we will partake of this during Lit Society in a few days:

I've tapered almost all of my tutoring but occasionally I still have a few hours on the weekend. Not this weekend, though! So, it feels like I have all the time in the world. I spend all of that time reading, but whatever.

G nerded it up all day yesterday. He's actually to the point that he's leading entire days of nerd fests and such. He's about to hire a sherpa to schlep all his crap around.

Since he was going to be gone all day and I was going to frantically get my life in order for the rest of the semester, we had an early breakfast. When G took this pic, he goes, "You look really serious." I was like, it's Eggs Benedict. Of course I'm serious.

I was like, "I may look serious, but you look bored. This is a date. Perk up, dude."

I would just like to say that as I type this, plans are in place to book our next big vacay. It won't be for a thousand years, and also after our VA house sells, but just the fact that actual legit plans are in place makes my heart flutter. There's talk of locations. And food. And plane tickets. It's all happening.