1. Tomato Soup. Today I went to World Market and bought some organic tomato soup…in a box. I know, that’s what I thought too: but soup is supposed to come from a can! However, I hope I am open-minded enough to accept new ideas and concepts. Soup from a box. I’ll keep you posted on how it tastes.
2. Prime Directive. I have been watching, for the first time ever, in the order they were aired, the episodes of Season 1 of The Next Generation. And I know that everyone who knows me already knows this, but some things just bear repeating. Oh how I love Star Trek.
3. Homework. I am also in the process of writing twenty-odd discussion questions to kickstart class on Tuesday. I am supposed to be leading discussion about The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy, and I feel, at this point at least, that I have every possible conversation topic covered. My questions/prompts are already reaching toward the fourth (single-spaced) page, and I’ve only done justice to about half of them. So finishing those up will be my tomorrow.
4. Tam Lin. Although I finished a draft of my conference paper about The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope, I haven’t abandoned research yet, using the occasion as an excuse to investigate other young adult fantasy adaptations of the Scottish ballad “Tam Lin.” I’ve since abandoned Tam Lin by Pamela Dean on the basis of too much dialogue and not enough rescuing mortals from fairies, and am about to begin reading Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones, for which I have higher hopes.
5. A Brief Survey of My Life. Soup, Star Trek, reading for school, reading for fun. Then thinking about thinking. That sounds about right.
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