New Recipes Tried: 5 (Creamy Pasta with Linguica Sausage; something that’s supposedly close to my great grandmother’s blueberry cobbler; Artichoke Chicken Casserole; On-Pan Creamy Chicken and Spinach; David Walzog’s Creamed Spinach)
New Yorkers read the very week they came: 1
Classes greeted: 3
Percentage of my almost-graduated Health Science Students who thought the 3-pt thesis, 5-paragraph essay was the only way to write: 95%
Percentage of my almost-graduated Health Science Students who thought the way to write a research paper was to decide what you think, then find data that backs you up, rather than to have a question and then do research so you know what your position should be: 90%
Weeks I have left with them: 7 and a half
Days I get to physically see them this quarter, due to the courses being hybrid: 9.
Hours lost trying to figure out how to teach this course in hybrid format + trying to make everything accessible for blind students, as per a new rule: all of them? I have no idea. I’m so, so tired.
Whole new classes: 1 (Supernatural Cinema)
Movies watched: 8 (Cannibal: The Musical; Cabin in the Woods; A Magnificent Life; Let the Right One In; What We Do in the Shadows; Star Trek (2009); Star Trek: First Contact; Project Hail Mary)
Movies watched from a hot tub: 1
Books finished: 6
Taxes done: 1
Anniversaries of marriages officially called off, without a divorce yet: 1
Plays: 1 (Fat Ham)
Health appointments: 10 (in three weeks)
A doctor being surprised that the more I exercise, the more my back hurts: 1
A doctor saying I maybe needed B12 shots: 1
Tests of my B12 levels, which found mine was really high: 1
Recommendations to stop taking B12 supplements, so they can give me B12 shots: 1
Days celebrated: 11 (Banana Day (today); Spiral Ham Day (today); Taters Day; Grilled cheese day; Something on a Stick; Respect Your Cat; Burrito Day; PBJ Day; Caramel Day; First Contact Day; Cordon Bleu Day)
UDCEs administrated: 1
RSV Vaccines: 1
Spring “Breaks”: 1
High pitched things that might be laughter or despair that comes out of me when I think about how much work I did on my “break”: 1
Global Teaching Courses started: 1
Stand-up performances with my students: 1
Getting completely lost looking for a class because the doors aren’t numbered in any order (this is real: 77, 79, 75, 73, 050, 501): 1
(No, it’s not the Death Star)
ArtMixes at the Crocker: 1
Times I got to the bank right after they closed: 1
Times that was fine because the universe had a woman driving by stop and roll down her window to tell me how much she liked my outfit and my gray hair: 1
Professional development activities: 3
All day cpr and first aid trainings: 1
Haircuts: 1
Double rainbows seen: 1
Times a stand-up club member needed a purple coat to perform & I offered my red one, which worked, and I instinctively brought the needed bowler hat too: 1
Absolute panics that I head to Europe in just 8 weeks: 1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
