:: Tuesday ::

Here's what I want from today:

• Sleep...as soon as I am done with this list.

• To get up and get out of the house at a reasonable time.
• A good decision about where to grade/write reports so I can focus and be productive.
• Be done with B period reports, so that all I can have left to do are sophomore advisee letters.

• Time to do (or drop off and pick up) laundry.
• An email from Lucci, accepting the sublet for at least $500.

• A phone call from a friend that energizes and refocuses.

• Patience with other people's process and time lines, but with the acknowledgment that too much patience is not a virtue—that's just being a pushover.

• A random, beautiful encounter.
• To notice something beautiful, especially if it is mundanely so.

• And, as always: the courage of James Baldwin.