We begin this happy Tuesday with our most popular weekly feature, a check-in with the kitties.
Phoebe has discovered the aloe vera plant of late. I have brought it back inside because of our nightly low temperatures. It was turning yellow and developed a dark spot, the telltale signs of being below 50 degrees. Poseidon noticed it instantly, and, now, I have to shoo them both away from the thing.
Poseidon, when he’s not watching birds and trying to bite plants or get outside, has become quite the innovator.
If it fits, he sits. If it has a flap, that’s where his head is at.
Like I said, he’s an innovator.
And, as you can see, the kitties are doing just fine.
And most of the plants are doing well, too. Look at this lilac go!
I’m pretty sure I’ve all but lost a potted rose bush. And I’m either over- or under-watering two other plants. Or maybe they need new pots. Or newer soil.
Plants should come with better signals for these sorts of things.
It’s probably the water. But which condition?
So I’ll start the finger tests. And maybe go outside, from time to time, to admire the lilacs.
I held my last class of the semester last night. It was a screening of video essays. The assignment is one designed to expose students to a video editing platform, Premiere Pro, and make them synthesize at least one of the topics we’ve discussed this semester, using found footage and their own voiceover.
The class has been working toward this singular project for three or four weeks, and so some of what we saw last night was good, and a few were quite impressive, indeed.
At the end of the class I thanked them for spending their Monday evenings with me, invited them to keep in touch, reminded them of my first lecture of the semester (they politely declined a final speech) and sent them on their way.
And so the semester has ended. For that class, anyway. Not for me. Now I must return to the grading, which will take some time.
I put too many final assignments in these final days. Can’t let that happen again. I may still be grading through the weekend.
Expect some filler.
Like this. I saw this at Penn Station Friday night. And I’m a sucker for messages in staircases.
Tomorrow, we’ll have some more historic markers, some other fillers and we’ll find out if my eyes have gone blurry after a mere two days of deep grading.
But, hey, we’re here, at the end of the term, so happy Tuesday!
