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Apparently I still act jetlagged. This scored me two cups of chai by a concerned student, in class today. I have to admit, I feel much better for the tea, though I suspect that how much work I'm fitting into a day is as much to blame as jetlag.
It's all wonderful stuff, which helps, given the volume of work from now until October. I have four columns to write for BiblioBuffet in the next week, which means I have a huge stack of books to read. I have to process everything from my trip and get back to that novel (now that I know what I'm doing with it), I have to prepare the Sydney workshop and my magic class for next Tuesday (it's going ahead, *and* there is space for more students - perfect all round), plus there's that article I have to finish tomorrow and there's my dissertation and a novel to crit and... quite a bit more. It's a big week.
My Wednesday class, is, as ever, wonderful. Today we wrote about doorways and windows, using photos I took specially on the trip as inspiration. Also about squirrels. One of the squirrels turned into Robo-Squirrel and rode a flying motorbike (illustrated story!). Instead of quantum physics, we watched The Lost Thing (I was Evil Teacher and insisted - "I won't see it" claimed three students, but they did and they loved it) and we talked about common and proper nouns.
Next week I have a request for more pictures to write about, and for acrostics as the poetic form to accompany the quantum physics.
This post means life is back to normal!
It's all wonderful stuff, which helps, given the volume of work from now until October. I have four columns to write for BiblioBuffet in the next week, which means I have a huge stack of books to read. I have to process everything from my trip and get back to that novel (now that I know what I'm doing with it), I have to prepare the Sydney workshop and my magic class for next Tuesday (it's going ahead, *and* there is space for more students - perfect all round), plus there's that article I have to finish tomorrow and there's my dissertation and a novel to crit and... quite a bit more. It's a big week.
My Wednesday class, is, as ever, wonderful. Today we wrote about doorways and windows, using photos I took specially on the trip as inspiration. Also about squirrels. One of the squirrels turned into Robo-Squirrel and rode a flying motorbike (illustrated story!). Instead of quantum physics, we watched The Lost Thing (I was Evil Teacher and insisted - "I won't see it" claimed three students, but they did and they loved it) and we talked about common and proper nouns.
Next week I have a request for more pictures to write about, and for acrostics as the poetic form to accompany the quantum physics.
This post means life is back to normal!