End of 2020

It's the end of 2020, but I can't say I have a lot of hope for 2021. Despite having some vaccines, COVID-19 is still raging--particularly in the US, where "toxic individualism" and governmental corruption/incompetence have combined to give the US the dubious honor of accounting for almost a fifth of the world's COVID deaths, despite accounting for only 4.25% of the world's population. Hard to be proud of that statistic. And it's hard for me to be optimistic at this point. Maybe I'll feel better tomorrow.

End of the semester

Turned in my grades last night, wrote up some final emails, filled out a couple of surveys that were sitting in my inbox, and now have until January 19 to rest, connect, and prepare for the upcoming semester. I'll be teaching all online courses again in the spring, by choice (and by necessity, since my son will continue attending school remotely, too). 

Our spring semester starts about a week late this term because the school has canceled spring break, which seems like a reasonable decision to me although it means students will be more worn out by the end (as will I!).

I don't have much to say at this point, since I'm worn out from life shoveling snow grading. Just thought I needed to get a posting in before the end of December. I do want to work on a writing project, so I was glad to stumble across this Twitter thread by Kathleen Lubey about a writing hack. That might come in handy...