On January 1st we went out walking around the nearby river and saw a thin gold crescent moon with Venus shining so bright white just above it. Here's hoping that the new year (2017 already!) will be clean and lovely much of the time, like tonight's heavenly bodies. With Donald Trump taking over as President of the USA, I find it hard to believe the new year will be lovely...
Anyway, Over the weekend I did some reading (finished The Monk and Dust of Dreams) and some reviewing (posted my Jungle Books review) and some class preparing (started making syllabi for 2017) and some cleaning (cleaned windows and dried futons and washed clothes and mopped floors) and movie watching (watched the three Hobbit movies back to back and was not impressed by all the stuff added to the book to make three movies when one would have sufficed), and so on. It will be weird to go back to school and have more classes for Thursday (twice more) and Friday (once more), and then finally examinations, etc. The idea of continuing the old school year into the new world year is unpleasant. But I am looking forward to seeing the kids again before saying goodbye to this school year. And looking back over the last year, I think overall it was a good one for me, with lots of intereting travel (thanks to my wife) and lots of good classes and interesting students and neat colleagues and relatively few health issues (no serious ones, I think). Oh--during this last year my wife and I celebrated our 30th anniversary, which is a feat when looked at from a certain perspective but for us is natural as breathing. Anyway--see you again in 2017!
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Jefferson Peters (JP)
Can you find me in the picture above? Archives
December 2023
Categories |