September 23-29
September 23
1965 Here I am again! It’s been a long time! Marty is going to school here. I’m going to a dance tomorrow night. I hope someone dances with me. (No one in particular, through.) Marcia says JR stares at me in history. There’s a sophomore who stares at me in Spanish! I sure hope this means something good - a change in me.
September 25
1991 The ice looks thin. Health and Human Performance continues to be interested, but Rachel has blasted me out of the water regarding moving the entire Consumer Economics program. I am courting Family and Community Development on behalf of Consumer Economics, getting only lukewarm responses. Everything just seems so dismal and hopeless. I am sure that e…
September 27
2006 I am still struggling with this tangle of tasks and active projects. What to connect - and what to discard - and of course how to do either - is a constant drone in my routine. It’s too easy to just do the things that are closest at hand , or the most urgent. But I have things that are close to my heart, with no deadlines, and they just get ignored.
September 28
1984 Wow! The end of an incredible week. Very busy, very satisfying. Not over, either. Tomorrow I drive to Philadelphia, give a paper, and drive home. Money I mop up the summer workshop (I hope). It astounds me that I have written 12 or 13 pages this week, in perhaps five or six hours here and there. I could write a book, dammit! Next week I do the eagle…
September 29
1981 I’m starting to feel pregnant. I figure I’ll be due between May 29 and June 11. Oh boy!! I have been playing with floor plans for the little room. We need more bookcases, and moving all the books to a single wall. Jim refuses to get rid of any books or put any books in storage. We’ll need dressers for ourselves, another file cabinet and a desk top f…