I missed last week and today is Sunday, but thought I would join A Little Bit of Everything and Momfessionals for Friday Favorites, even if late. The end of September and beginning of October have really felt like drinking from a firehose. I’ve done a lot of things. A lot of things have happened around me. Some have been really fun. Some have been a lot of work. Some have been sad. Some have just been hard. And the rest of October has a lot going on by plan and I’m sure some other things will come up and it will continue to be a lot. But, we’re looking for favorites and grace and good things. I’ll go back the two weeks for my favorites and get caught up!
#1 – All things Fall
The weather is even starting to cooperate! It is only 74 at the high today. But, it will be back up to 90 this week, but mostly in the 80s. I can deal with that. The recent 100 degree temps were a little much for Fall.
#2 – Fun with friends
That blurry photo is ridiculous but we were playing trivia at a local place with friends. The Seltzer is not quite a Spritzer, but as close as I got these past two weeks. It was tasty – I had never had one. We were at a friend’s house for a small reunion of Speech and Debate team members from the past before our Hall of Fame that we celebrate every three years. I was inducted as a Director (a role I played for about 15 years on campus) and it was lovely. Friends who couldn’t make it sent me flowers and that is number 3!
#3 Thoughtful Acts from Friends that include Flowers!
#4 – Teaching and Service
This past couple of weeks I’ve done a lot of teaching and some service. Our Girl Scout center had a clean-up day where all the troops come in and do some maintenance work – my daughter recruited for her day camp and I helped with some errands and rock moving.
For teaching, we did a fun “battery” activity in my internship class and we’re all signed up and ready to go for Informative Speeches in my Public Speaking class. We also finished up our Wikipedia unit in Argumentation and took the first exam. I need to grade those on Monday and see how they did and we’ll move on to AI and Debate on Tuesday!
#5 Puzzles!
I finally finished my Summer puzzle and now I’m ready to start The Dogs of Halloween!
Well, that is about it for the these weeks. So much has been happening at work that I can’t seem to keep my head above water. I’m really struggling to get it all done and that is really just October. I know that. But, it doesn’t make it any less painful. This week I’ve got a Girl Scout meeting on Monday to finish planning our Halloween Party we host for younger girls and our weekend trip that happens in two weeks (which reminds me that I still need to do paperwork and a training for Girl Scouts), a fun night called Science at the Pub on Wednesday where grad students and professors come to a local bar and talk about their research, my daughter has their big intercity rivalry game on Friday – called the Almond Bowl (and say the Almond like Salmon if you want to be a local), then there are some fun events over the weekend here in town. The next week is all about Halloween Party and a trip prep with Girl Scouts. In addition, I have a TON of work to do – emails to deal with, grading to do, planning the rest of the semester, making more progress on our 2-unit graduation class we’re trying to get to proposal stage, writing my year-end assessment report for last year in FYE, and so. much. more.
I will do what I can do! Wish me luck!
How is your October looking? Are you getting Rocktobered? Are you LockedIntober? Are you in PJs and Sockstober? Let me know!
Looking forward to hearing what you have to say!