A post, a post!

Hi, it’s Sarah today. Nathan insists that I post on our blog tonight so that I will stop distracting him and let him study Greek. Fair’s fair, as they say. But right now I don’t really know what to write (hence I continue to pester him) – it’s 10 p.m. and it’s my least favorite time of day. I enjoy the early evening but I really hate night. Hate hate hate. I have always found myself irrationally sad during that time when it’s too late to begin any new task but when it’s also not quite time to go to sleep. Daytime, productive activity is safe, and sleep is safe (though something that I like to put off), but I feel so unsettled during that half hour when I am mustering up the resolution to go to bed. Hmmm. I am especially melancholy this evening because I finished watching the Masterpiece Theatre series of Dicken’s Bleak House this evening, and am dreading Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse, which next awaits me on my reading list. Woolf, Dickens and night are enough to drive anyone to despair (Lady Dedlock anybody?? Honestly!). But more to the point: what do you think about evening? Can you give me positive associations?

But in other news, I spent a lovely afternoon at the Maryland Tillman abode and was given the privilege of collaborating on the curriculum for a high school homeschool American literature course. I also got to meet the new kitty-in-law, who was adorable. Oh, I was in heaven – cats, families, books. I am not certain how much of the American literature course I will get to teach this year, but I am very excited about it. I can’t wait to finish the MA and be able to teach full time. It’s nice to think both that I now know what I like to do and that I am reasonably qualified to do it, neither of which have happened before. 

The Tillman visit was pretty much the most exciting thing that’s happened around here lately as most days are passed either reading at home or reading at the Writing Center. As many of you know (many? are there many of you yet, readers?), I am preparing to take a comprehensive literature exam in January, so I am reading as much as I possibly can. My blog posts will probably center mostly around this task, which may seem (and probably is) one of the most boring topics for a blog – BUT just think how useful it will be to you, dear reader: *you* will never need to read Robinson Crusoe because *I* will be uniquely qualified to tell you that you needn’t bother. Right? 

I fear I’m not very good at this blogging business. How do you do it? Oi. I will try. Much love to you all!