Mood:  surprised

Hey, two days in a row.  Maybe I really am going to keep this up.  I think that part of what I need to do is not pressure myself to write a lot in one sitting.

I spent yesterday putzing around, then met my brother for dinner.  That was unexpected as I had just planned to go and drop off some pastry that I'd gotten for him at Mike's Bakery in Boston's North End. (I was taking a class at the Paul Revere House and the bakery was on the way home.)  He mentioned going to a small restaurant near the house where we grew up, so I went with him.  Better than the two of us eating alone.

I came home and watched the Red Sox game (they won 10-5), and spent time doing some school work.  I've tried to do a lot of summer reading that might be good for my class.  I finished up the cover of a reading journal that I want to use as a model for what I'd like the kids to do.

I modeled the journaling for the novel The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs by Betty Birney.  It's a cute book, and one that we encouraged all the kids to read this summer.

I have many things I'd like to get done around here today, but I don't really know if I'm going to get even a tenth of it done, but at least I'm sort of in the mood to get going.

Now all I need to do is actually stop sitting at the computer and get to the projects.  Avoiding distractions is always a challenge!