Tonight's Poet Corner: Introspection
Today was a pretty good day, in all retrospect. I ran my first official Socratic seminar independently with my English classes, with two classes doing very well and two almost there with the student-led spirit of the conversations. Also, while we definitely need more time with our final deadline, the final pages of the yearbook are coming along quite nicely. I still have to cope with students misinterpreting some comments I've made, but that's par for the course as a teacher. Tonight was truly the icing on the cake, though, and just reiterated how lucky I am to have been chosen by my incredible wifey. She made a delicious angel hair and chicken dinner (I provided the wine and Moscow Mules), and we got to have some amazing conversations about everything from past jobs to mortality to gun control to a marriage-oriented tarot reading. We even had to keep pausing the first episode of the newest season of Queer Eye because we were so busy chatting. It was so refreshing to have suc