Summer arrived today...


... for me. Some plans for summer. We shall see how this plays out.

Summer, for me, arrived today, though it's still cold enough to wear a jacket. The last exam of the semester took place, and I have carried off the pile of bluebooks. I have big plans for the summer, beginning with reading the bluebooks. And reading the last few, straggling admissions files. Interspersed with these duties, I will do a number of organizational, personal administrative tasks, and I have an ambitious list of these things, which I intend to accomplish by using them as a break from grading. For example, I'd like to take everything out of the kitchen and then evaluate each item, so that it must earn its right to return to a place in the kitchen or be damned to the trash heap or sent to the purgatory of Goodwill. I'd like to give the same treatment to the things in the basement and the attic and the garage and the dressing room and the studio and "outer space." What? You mean there's a part of your house called "outer space"? Why, yes! And it's overflowing with junk ... art and junk. It's quite a mess. Why is it called "outer space"? It's a literary allusion. A kid literary illusion. To "Fraggle Rock." Anyway, de-junkifying, exam grading, etc., mark the beginning of summer.

Posted: Fri - May 7, 2004 at 08:49 PM      

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