Productive day

Oh my goodness, you guys.  I got stuff done today.  I haven't been this productive in at east 6 months (6 months on Friday to be exact).

I finished grading the pile of project proposals from my rhetorical criticism students I have been working on-- and a stack of discussion questions, meaning I am totally up to date on my grading if you don't count the response papers they turned in today, and I for sure DO NOT because I am not grading them or feeling guilty about them until Thursday morning before class.  I even recorded a huge back log of grades on my school's online grade center.

Class was great today, and we did a new thing with some Obama speeches that I have never tried before, and it WORKED.

I came right home to feed Cooper, who was having a bit of a no sleep day.  He helped me write an exam for the smaller of the 2 public speaking classes I direct.

I went back to campus for a meeting and made some really good connections. One.  But it was good. On the way home, I gave myself an excellent pep talk about finally publishing the shit I need to edit and send out.  We'll see how that goes.

After dinner, I made baby food, cleaned the kitchen, and jumped on a conference call all while wearing the baby.  Multitasking FTW!

sleepy, sleepy baby

 I thought I would have a little more physical autonomy now that Cooper is almost 6 months old, but he will not drink bottles, so he and I are joined a the hip.  I did sneak away for a couple hours of grading at a coffee shop yesterday, and it made me remember all those afternoons spent writing in a cloud of that thick coffee smell.  I need more of those.