THE HORROR:
Sunday January 20
There is a little dusting of white stuff (ain't saying the word)laying on the lawn. My disgruntlement is large, I did not go far enough south yet. I made some cool cupcakes yesterday, and some cinnamon buns are rising now. I can taste their awesomeness already!
Just one:
Sinsamon buns:
Iced cupcakes:
Uniced cupcakes:
Saturday January 19
Though it is Saturday, it feels like Sunday. Monday is a holiday for me, and I had yesterday 'off' which might explain the loss of any sense of what day it actually could be. Yesterday I went off to Whole Foods and picked up some of the necessities of life, and some things that are less necessary but add pleasure to existence, and that is a Saturday kind of activity. So I guess I have good excuses for my day confusion.
The weather the past few days has been cold and damp. Thursday it rained much of the day, though I do not think huge accumulations of water occurred. there was enough to leave puddles on the streets, and I know this cause some ding-a-ling deliberately drove through one and splashed me. The things I will do to get toast. I had left school and trotted through the miserably cold streets to get to the nearest toaster seller because the old one had collapsed. I found a nice cheap one at the drug store, and it is working quite nicely.
I have a busy weekend planned. I have to read _Collected Stories of Charles W. Chestnutt_ for a class, prepare a lesson on active and passive voice and another on the features of a science article for Tuesday's class, and get a poem ready for class that I can send out later this week.
Active voice: I write beautiful sentences.
Passive voice: Beautiful sentences are written.
I think the next thing I will be teaching the class is APA style of citation. I have not used that style in years, but it is fairly simple. I have a nice big handbook for it, MLA, and Chicago Style. All I do not know at all is the international science format, but it is not necessary for me to know it, at least not yet.
There is a winter storm warning out for this area beginning around noon. They are calling for the potential for a few inches of snow, and given the location and the drivers abilities, this is a major concern. I am hoping it does not turn into an ice storm. The trees are often very close to the power lines here, it would not take much to create a huge outage. It is hard to tell that it is winter here. Walking to the store yesterday I saw some kind of rose blooming (Rose of Sharon?), some kind of vine/shrub covered in yellow flowers, and on Thursday a tree near the Library covered in pink blossoms. There are, of course, pansies everywhere.
