It's all over but the proofreading.

In a motel room in Driggs, ID, I have finally finished my portfolio.

the drives. whence comes the documentation.

epic. 

Tomorrow, on to monuments not made by human hand. Made of stone and fire and water. That's all.

You guys.

This is pretty much how it is at night around here.

Bruiser thinks it's just about time to get outside for our nightly walk. I also know that it's time. But first I have to send five billion emails and put up the new week's homepage and rewrite the rubric and make a new rubric and try to get my arms around all the things that need to be done before the end of the semester and figure out what to wear tomorrow and make about five billion lists.

Luckily I have a comfortable chair. Also, this picture doesn't even show the extent of my squalor. C'est la vie, Bruiser. C'est la vie.

(thanks for the pics, Walker!)

School or not school? you be the judge.

1. I have ten school-related meetings this week.

2. TEN.

3. Still grading.

4. I'm engaging in long obsessive worryings about this-and-that. School-related, natch.

5. I bought two heliotropes, a fantastic pelargonium, and three marguerite daisies (pink) today.

6. We moved the outside pots outside, where they belong. In the rain.

7. I'm still writing notes to students about things they may have forgotten.

8. I'm receiving application materials from students for the Folio editorships.

9. I am about to read great swaths of my French detective novel.

10. I wore a white dress with a grey polka-dotted sweater.

Movie reviews, sorted.

Tonight, I have completed the brief reviews of all the movies I saw in 2008.  Et voila.

As of tonight, we have seen five films in 2009, reviews here.   This is a full-service blog.