I suppose this means we’ve passed the halfway point of summer…It goes so fast.
I am longing to go away again. Shocker. Since we are approaching one of the year’s (historically) rough passages, I have decided to give myself something to look forward to in mid-October which will hopefully take the edge off things between now and then. It’s all tentative, as it’s too soon for me to book anything, but it makes me feel happier when I have something to plan. And we will see what happens be”H…
I have hit my summer reading stride. The Kindle and Hoopla apps have been so helpful — using that dopamine-seeking loop to my advantage! Over last Shabbos and this week, I read the rest of the Felicity books, finished the Borrowers series, and read a few short books: The Chalk Box Kid, The Hundred Dresses, and The Chocolate Touch, which were all “whole-class” novels when I was in second and third grade. I have decided as part of this summer of reading nostalgia, to revisit books from school days. We shall see how far I get with that. My favorite books this week were The Borrowers Afield and The Hundred Dresses.
This week I tried cake batter-flavored custard at Rita’s (Side note: I completely missed Tamuz, but I’ll make it up.) It was good enough but kind of tasted like regular vanilla flavor! My favorite of the three I’ve tried is still definitely orange cream.
I ate the most luscious cherries this week! They were so big and beautiful they almost looked like pretend cherries.
The semester is ending in two weeks, and I’m good and ready for that, but will have close to 60 final papers to grade, which is…not what I want, to be totally honest. But I’ll get through it. I do like to teach an awful lot, but I’ve decided to take the fall semester off. I could use a break and I would really like an autumn (more on that, eventually).
Another short dissertation meeting…bit by bit by bit. It will get done. It will! Be”H.
And with that…have a restful, air-conditioned Shabbos!
