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Sep. 6th, 2011 03:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ajnabiehI have a Real Substantive Post brewing, but before I got it done, I thought I'd pop my head in and wave. Hello! I am back from the abyss! Er, by which I apparently mean Twitter?
Life is settling in here; we're into our second week of classes (which means I'm located somewhere between Dr. Koshary, who's been teaching for three-four weeks already, and Tenured Radical, for whom the first day of school was Labor Day--though Labor Day was a school day here as well!), and my students are doing well, although they demonstrate a shocking inability to remember Moldova is in Europe and Suriname is in South America (yes, today was geography quiz day). My family is enjoying having a little more space, having relocated from a 2-bedroom apartment which we shared with a roommate to a 3.5 bedroom house complete with full attic, basement, and other assorted accountrements. (Fun fact: our furniture we brought from the other house? Basically fills this one.) I'm enjoying living somewhere with easy proximity to locally grown produce, and busily putting things up for the winter. (Lots of broccoli. Lots of lots of broccoli. Anybody got advice for what I should do with sugar plums?) And I'm really, really, really loving having an office to myself, a ten-minute walk from my house. Really. Words cannot even describe.
So, until I'm back, two quick teaching-fashion outfits for you. The first is the first day of school, when I had no teaching but wanted to look presentable for students. The second is today's teaching outfit.
I didn't manage to photograph my favorite outfit of last week: black pants/jacket, blue and white striped button down, blue and grey striped tie), but I will tell you that, as I taught my last class wearing it, jacket off, sleeves rolled up, chalk dust on my tie, I thought: damn, I wish the official school photographer were here. I look awesome.
Life is settling in here; we're into our second week of classes (which means I'm located somewhere between Dr. Koshary, who's been teaching for three-four weeks already, and Tenured Radical, for whom the first day of school was Labor Day--though Labor Day was a school day here as well!), and my students are doing well, although they demonstrate a shocking inability to remember Moldova is in Europe and Suriname is in South America (yes, today was geography quiz day). My family is enjoying having a little more space, having relocated from a 2-bedroom apartment which we shared with a roommate to a 3.5 bedroom house complete with full attic, basement, and other assorted accountrements. (Fun fact: our furniture we brought from the other house? Basically fills this one.) I'm enjoying living somewhere with easy proximity to locally grown produce, and busily putting things up for the winter. (Lots of broccoli. Lots of lots of broccoli. Anybody got advice for what I should do with sugar plums?) And I'm really, really, really loving having an office to myself, a ten-minute walk from my house. Really. Words cannot even describe.
So, until I'm back, two quick teaching-fashion outfits for you. The first is the first day of school, when I had no teaching but wanted to look presentable for students. The second is today's teaching outfit.
I didn't manage to photograph my favorite outfit of last week: black pants/jacket, blue and white striped button down, blue and grey striped tie), but I will tell you that, as I taught my last class wearing it, jacket off, sleeves rolled up, chalk dust on my tie, I thought: damn, I wish the official school photographer were here. I look awesome.
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Date: 2011-09-07 11:25 pm (UTC)Apropos of nothing: my toddler is really into Libyan Children's Song, which he found on YouTube. Do the lyrics happen to be intelligible to you? :-)
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Date: 2011-09-08 07:34 pm (UTC)*(Probably not dabke. Probably a related dance from Libya. Anyway.)