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mid life

ever have that hollowed out feeling?  Like you're walking around in a daze?  The "is this all there is" feeling?  The "this is as good as it gets?" feeling.  As if nothing really matters anymore and you're feelings are numb and buried underneath years of the "blunt trauma" of life?  

Friday round up

• 7 students so far signed up for Bible as Lit course for spring semester. 12 is the magic number to avoid cancellation. One more student will sign up; I already talked to her on the phone and am doing some paperwork for her. Several of my current students expressed interest in the class.
• I got my Angel shells for spring semester, and now I can start working on them. For Bible class I have to create a list of the chapters in the workbook that are eligible for the homework assignment -- some chapters are too short! The workbook, by the way, is Introducing the Bible: An Active Learning Approach, by Adam Porter at Illinois College in Springfield. The bible for the course is the standard NOAB, New Oxford Annotated Bible (New revised standard version).
• Too wet to rake leaves this weekend. Anyway, I have 095 essays to grade. But no research papers!
• Poly this autumn has been baking bread, baking cookies, and baking various loafs, too (banana and chocolate chip, for example!) However, this weekend we are getting our Chinese maintenance tea! Good for the digestive system, and not too strong (but a little bitter, like all good Chinese medicinal teas).

still

still looking

still searching

not finding

it's been so long

forgotten what I'm looking for