The semester has ended, the graduation I attended is over, the legislative session has finished, and the Crazy May events (multiple birthdays, recitals, concerts, etc.) have not yet begun. I had some bureaucratic stuff to do over the weekend that would have been Very Nice to have done a week earlier, so I celebrated the end of the legislative session by doing morning stuff just for myself (yard work, two exercise classes), and then<\/b> heading into the office to finish up the Late Bureaucratic Stuff.<\/p>\n
I am tempted to comment on a bunch of items in the news, and I may in the next few hours, as relaxation, distraction, and celebration. I also need to work on the next English EPAA article, write a few disposition e-mails, herd a few cats (reviewers), finalize the summer class I’m teaching in June and July, schedule a talk with a coauthor, decide if I’ll write the book prospectus I was speaking with a series editor about in the last month, write a note to a research group I’m facilitating, Do Union Stuff,… and have a life. <\/p>\n
But today is a bit of an in-between moment, with some shepherding of my children to events and small stuff. Too bad blood donation rooms are closed on Sunday, because I haven’t given in a while. (I’m eligible, and I have veins the size of superhighways, relatively speaking.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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