Last Week of the Winter Quarter

Woke up to more snow this morning. Lucas has a habit of bursting into our room, rattling our very loud doorknobs, and issuing declaratives: "I'm cold!" "I peed!" "It's snowing!" So today he announced that "It's Snowing!!" and he was right. Just a thin layer of snow to remind me that it's still winter and it's still cold and dreary out.

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One more quarter to go before my sabbatical. They should've told me at the end of the Spring quarter. Armed with the knowledge that I'll be having a very long break has made me a little irritable.

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I need a recipe for "Play doh." We go through the stuff so quickly, and I know it's cheap to make. Someone have one?

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I've got a stack of poetry books I'm getting ready to read during the break. Among them--Sarah Vap's Faulkner's Rosary, Norman Dubie's The Volcano, Beckian Fritz Goldberg's Reliquary Fever, and Dora Malech's Say So. They're all AWP purchases that I had started but they got shelved as the full weight of the new quarter pressed upon me. The first poem of Sarah's collection is a stunner, and that'll be the first one I'll dig into.

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I'm teaching a prosody class and a prose poem class next quarter. Should be fun!

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