Good news: I submitted paper #2 of the semester on Monday and I'm pretty pleased with it. It felt like a really daunting task and I got it done.
Bad news: I sat down to write paper #3 and immediately thought, "I cannot possibly write this paper." Maybe at some point my brain will stop doing that.
Good news: No tears on Monday.
Bad news: Many tears on Tuesday. Not just kid tears on Tuesday.
Good news: Much-needed rain! Lovely chatty walk in a pleasant sprinkle to see if the first horse chestnuts had started falling!
Bad news: One of the students in this house got so excited about splashing in puddles after lunch that a class was missed. Whoops.
Good news: The teacher was very nice about it.
Bad news: Online learning continues to require a fair amount of parent involvement and a fair amount of student mutual frustration.
Good news: Honors chemistry is not too taxing thus far...
Bad news: ...because here in week 2 they're still taking personality quizzes, identifying their strengths, and preparing to write celebrity profiles for elements.
Good news: One kid got some exercise via a sunset walk around a local lake with swans.
Bad news: Another kid is bummed because I'm feeling like the climbing gym is too risky with these COVID numbers.
Good news: Some of our new perennials are gearing up for another round of blooming and our butterfly garden is a hive of happy activity.
Bad news: Yellow jackets have nested under our compost pile and they're too close to the neighbors' wooden fence for me to kill them with fire.
Also bad news: Since I'm allergic to wasps I'm not enthusiastic about riling up yellow jackets.
Good news: I'm not, like, anaphylaxis-allergic; I'm just, like, needed-steroids-last-time-I-got-stung-allergic.
Bad news: That doesn't actually feel like good news.
Good news: Tomorrow's NYT crossword awaits, and I am going to solve it and go to bed.
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