Day 338: Things that I do to wind down
Yes, random topic generator
What I tend to do to wind down from a tiring and stressful day in the classroom (which is most of them) is to get everything squared away in the classroom, then get in my car, drive to the drive-thru Starbucks (yes, yes, corporate heinousness, etc. etc), order their largest black tea with lots of half 'n half, and sometimes a piece of pumpkin bread (not their banana bread, which I think is a very bad example of banana bread), park in their lot, drink the tea, eat the pumpkin bread, and read whatever it is that I am reading at the moment. Tomorrow afternoon, that will probably be an Agatha Christie novel -- either Sleeping Murder, or A Murder is Announced. I've read all of her stuff before, but it doesn't quite rise to read-it-thirty-or-forty times level of rereading. Right now, though, I am watching on Netflix the more recent Marple series -- I still have not got my courage quite up to watch the replacement for Geraldine McEwen's Jane Marple, whom I thought was the best EVAR. But I'm working my way up to that. And both of the Christies I've named are part of that made-for-television series -- very good ones. I love how the newly crafted versions work in lesbians and gay men everywhere, and I am partly reading these particular ones to see whether there is any textual evidence hinting at that.
What I tend to do to wind down from a tiring and stressful day in the classroom (which is most of them) is to get everything squared away in the classroom, then get in my car, drive to the drive-thru Starbucks (yes, yes, corporate heinousness, etc. etc), order their largest black tea with lots of half 'n half, and sometimes a piece of pumpkin bread (not their banana bread, which I think is a very bad example of banana bread), park in their lot, drink the tea, eat the pumpkin bread, and read whatever it is that I am reading at the moment. Tomorrow afternoon, that will probably be an Agatha Christie novel -- either Sleeping Murder, or A Murder is Announced. I've read all of her stuff before, but it doesn't quite rise to read-it-thirty-or-forty times level of rereading. Right now, though, I am watching on Netflix the more recent Marple series -- I still have not got my courage quite up to watch the replacement for Geraldine McEwen's Jane Marple, whom I thought was the best EVAR. But I'm working my way up to that. And both of the Christies I've named are part of that made-for-television series -- very good ones. I love how the newly crafted versions work in lesbians and gay men everywhere, and I am partly reading these particular ones to see whether there is any textual evidence hinting at that.