May is usually the happiest time of year for me, but I've been floundering. The spring semester ended later than it usually does, I had a student who added herself to the short list of Most Memorably Exasperating Students, my summer class started sooner than summer classes usually do, and it's kind of a tricky class to boot. Oh, and I had an exhausting unexplained arrhythmia episode two days after telling you how predictable my arrhythmia had been for 18 years, and I've been on a new medication that seems to make me more tired than the old one. On top of that I've had a weird string of minor but unpleasant staph infections. I'm hoping this means that I'm a little run down and not that I"m living in squalor, since no one else in the family has been affected.
Anyway, this is the time of year when I am usually planning All The Things, but right now I am mostly planning my next nap.
I do still want to read Great Expectations with the folks who were interested in the Tenth Annual May Dickens Read-ALong, and we are running out of May in which to read it. So here's my suggestion: if we start on Thursday the 25th we'll still have a week of May in which to get the ball rolling. It's one of his shorter novels, and at this point I think I'll just plan to read it slowly: ten or fifteen pages a day should get us to the end of the book by the end of June.
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