Weekend stats.

Peaches: 16, from two vendors.

Nectarines: 3 exorbitantly priced ones, from our fruit guy, who has a very high opinion of his fruit in general, and his nectarines in specific.

Movies: 1, unless you count watching A Few Good Men on AMC for the zillionth time, in which case: 2. Wait! also significant portions of The Misfits on TCM, because it was Montgomery Clift day, which we watched while laying around this afternoon and also reading portions of a Swedish mystery novel.

Pants purchased on sale at the Gap: 4 pair, cute if I do say so myself.

Successful technology challenge sorted: new charger for my Macbook Pro, which was (I bet you can guess this:) failing to charge.

Dollars spent to sort technology challenge: 0. That is "zero." That's because of the brilliant Apple Store Genius, Tomasi, who figured out, I guess, that my charger was still warrantied, or something? Anyway, Tomasi was awesome. Tomasi is a solutions provider.

Syllabi finished, worked on, or started: 0. That is also "zero." I have no further comment to make on this point.

Fantastic culinary adventures: 1. I made harissa, to go with roasted potatoes omg it was aMAzing. It was for my poetry group.

Birthday girls who ate pancakes with us: 2. At Dee's! --a brief panegyric on Dee's: unpretentious; full of cheerful folk but still with a table to be had, without any waiting whatsoever; with the best hash browns I've had in quite some time, and, judging from the several bits I stole from one birthday girl's chocolate chip pancakes, with an excellent chocolate chip pancake.

Rating, on a scale of 1-10, with 1 being "hideous" and 10 being "stellar," of the weekend overall, thus far: pretty much perfect.

Progress, sort of.

I have:

• Read a pile of drafts and given feedback to students.
• Conferenced with almost every one of my online creative writing students, via chat, a phone call, or an in person visit.
• Co-taught a workshop on writing local history with (guess?) the historian (at the Community Writing Center).
• Listened to the Clash, The Essential Clash, while responding to student work, because apparently I never uploaded Combat Rock to my iPod.
• Prepared an excellent and (may I say) a little bit sexy handout for my classes today.
• Put together a darn near perfect outfit which lifted my spirits all day long.
  
• Overcame ennui and pre-spring break laggardliness in my classes with charm, pure charm, baby.
  

Still to do:

• Read more student drafts.
• Conference with remaining creative writing students.
• Teach the other half of the writing local history workshop next week.
• Help students troubleshoot their wack eportfolios.
  
• Receive and respond to massive amounts of preliminary eportfolios.
• Keep the good outfit mojo going.
  
• Upload Combat Rock.