{"id":573896866,"date":"2024-04-30T20:31:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T00:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573896866"},"modified":"2024-05-17T18:44:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T22:44:37","slug":"not-an-interregnum-but-something-of-an-interregnum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2024\/04\/30\/not-an-interregnum-but-something-of-an-interregnum\/","title":{"rendered":"Not an interregnum, but something of an interregnum"},"content":{"rendered":"

We begin this happy Tuesday with our most popular weekly feature, a check-in with the kitties. <\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

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Poseidon, when he’s not watching birds and trying to bite plants or get outside, has become quite the innovator. <\/p>\n

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If it fits, he sits. If it has a flap, that’s where his head is at.<\/p>\n

Like I said, he’s an innovator. <\/p>\n

And, as you can see, the kitties are doing just fine. <\/p>\n

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And most of the plants are doing well, too. Look at this lilac go! <\/p>\n

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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. <\/p>\n

Plants should come with better signals for these sorts of things. <\/p>\n

It’s probably the water. But which condition?<\/p>\n

So I’ll start the finger tests. And maybe go outside, from time to time, to admire the lilacs.<\/p>\n

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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. <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

I put too many final assignments in these final days. Can’t let that happen again. I may still be grading through the weekend. <\/p>\n

Expect some filler. <\/p>\n

Like this. I saw this at Penn Station Friday night. And I’m a sucker for messages in staircases.<\/p>\n

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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. <\/p>\n

But, hey, we’re here, at the end of the term, so happy Tuesday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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