Good Things, a la Billie. Because in spite of the sleep thing, I’m feeling pretty thankful lately.

• My students positively rocked their how-to presentations yesterday. We learned the technical differences between different kind of baseball gloves and how to purchase a good one and care for it as well as how to make Vietnamese noodle salad, origami cranes, and proper pizza. It’s not every day that one of my frat boys earnestly and effectively persuades everyone of the virtues of fresh mozzerella.
• Then lunch with a Med School compatriot who appears to be becoming a friend. We discussed The Project not once during a two-hour lunch.
• I managed to get out of Office Depot with only what I really needed, but what I really needed was such fun. (Post-it flags, a new clipboard, number stencils. I can’t remember the last time I had occasion to buy stencils.)
• Soy chai from Caribou Coffee. And a tiny stuffed moose with a bandit mask.
• It’s brussel sprout season, and I finally started buying the big, uncut stalks of sprouts at the Farmer’s Market instead of the loose, expensive ones at the grocery store. Amazing. More on that later, perhaps.
• Lovely husband who suggests unplanned Saturday morning in front of the TV. Ren and Stimpy reruns! The Gods Must Be Crazy! There should be Invader Zim.
• Grilled cheese sammiches for breakfast. And the sweet perversity of drinking stout out of a teacup last night.
• The apartment has lots of light. Especially today.

An Unexpected, Mostly Good But Annoying Thing:

• I’m enjoying working my way through The New Rhetoric. (“Enjoying” is a relative term; I guess what I like is the challenge. This is quite humorous, considering how much I bitched my way through the first 100 pages.) The problem is that I want to keep working on this text, but I’ve figured out the part I need to answer my exam question, and so I have to move on. I’m afraid I’ll have lost my momentum by the time I get a chance to come back to Perelman.

To Do This Weekend:

• Un-explode the house. There are books all over the floor in every room. Now there are only books all over the living room.
• Make a pre-emptive strike on the grading.
• Start drafting the syllabus for the spring course on Internet Tools and Issues, since I need to do book orders and a colleague has nicely volunteered to build out the WebCT site for a class she’s taking in Instructional Technologies.
• Cook something yummy.
• Read read read. Write write write.