First post
This New Year's celebration has me looking, for the first time, forward instead of back. I've felt no introspection this year, no need to recount the past year, or the past decade. I find myself thoroughly uninterested in doing so.
In part, because I've had a lot of time to be introspective (and nostalgic) in general, these past few months. And also because I have a lot of things to look forward to in the upcoming year and years.
The first of which is our trip to San Diego in a couple days. It's a quick trip, and a work-trip (at least in part) for Josh, but we'll have some time to kick around in the 70-degree sunshine and visit the zoo between Josh's speaking engagements and meetings with publishers. I'm excited to explore a new city, and want to try the Mexican food there - that close to Mexico, I should be able to find something fairly authentic, don't you think? I'm eager to try some of the real thing.
Work's going to be pretty fun this month. It's J-term (January term), and our office puts on a bunch of events for the students who stick around. We also organize/oversee all the non-credit classes (everything from stargazing in the observatory to spinning yarn to the history of western comics). It just seems like a fun, low-key time, and it's so nice to see students relaxed and enjoying themselves, after the crazy end-of-semester stress about exams. I'm also having a good time sharing in my students' joys: one of them just got into grad school, and I'm crazy proud. She'll be going to Minnesota, so I promised her that next Thanksgiving, when I'm out there, I'll take her to lunch.
I'm teaching myself how to needle-felt as well, so I'll post pics of my little critters at some point, once I have a few (I've been sort of giving them away as soon as they're done). It's nice to have a hobby.
So yeah, good times.
In part, because I've had a lot of time to be introspective (and nostalgic) in general, these past few months. And also because I have a lot of things to look forward to in the upcoming year and years.
The first of which is our trip to San Diego in a couple days. It's a quick trip, and a work-trip (at least in part) for Josh, but we'll have some time to kick around in the 70-degree sunshine and visit the zoo between Josh's speaking engagements and meetings with publishers. I'm excited to explore a new city, and want to try the Mexican food there - that close to Mexico, I should be able to find something fairly authentic, don't you think? I'm eager to try some of the real thing.
Work's going to be pretty fun this month. It's J-term (January term), and our office puts on a bunch of events for the students who stick around. We also organize/oversee all the non-credit classes (everything from stargazing in the observatory to spinning yarn to the history of western comics). It just seems like a fun, low-key time, and it's so nice to see students relaxed and enjoying themselves, after the crazy end-of-semester stress about exams. I'm also having a good time sharing in my students' joys: one of them just got into grad school, and I'm crazy proud. She'll be going to Minnesota, so I promised her that next Thanksgiving, when I'm out there, I'll take her to lunch.
I'm teaching myself how to needle-felt as well, so I'll post pics of my little critters at some point, once I have a few (I've been sort of giving them away as soon as they're done). It's nice to have a hobby.
So yeah, good times.