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I’m enjoying my French Cinema class…

2/19/21. Friday

8:00 – No.

10:30 – 11:30 - I’m up and I go downstairs to greet the dog.  She’s awake at the child gate at the bottom of the stairs, tail wagging.  She grabs her toy and we go outside.  After a few minutes of running around, the dog goes potty, and back inside we go.  Rotten chicken for her treat; coffee for me.

I drink my coffee and clean the entire kitchen.  I move onto the refrigerator, where I discard a few food items. Then, I sweep the downstairs. I listen to The Daily and Martinis and Your Money while I work.

11:30-1:30 – What a beautiful day!  After all of the wind we’ve been experiencing, today is sunny and warm.  I truly love California. I go straight to the yard and try to repot the cuttings that fell out of their pot a few days ago.  I also re-pot a succulent.  Then, I sweep the patio and water a section of the yard with a watering can.  I trim dead leaves/limbs from several of the plants, then wrap a string of white lights around one of the tree trunks in my yard. It is so nice outside. I listen to What a Day, Today Explained, and Pop Culture Happy Hour.

1:30 –3:30 –  L. needs to go to the store but there’s no telling when she will actually go so I have to get creative. I prep a red pepper, then sauté it, and add it to the frozen white corn I thawed out. I make scrambled eggs and put some of the red pepper in the eggs, but add the rest of the red pepper to the corn. I thaw out a variety veggie pack then cut an apple into slices for a future snack. I find a frozen piece of herbed chicken that I made in June and a frozen tub of hummus – I thaw them both out.

-L. leaves for work at the studio and from there will visit R.

I take my scrambled egg dish outside and sit at my patio while I eat. It’s so nice and warm today!  I read Money Diaries and listen to the 365 Podcast.

3:30-5:00 – Blog posts.

5:00-5:45- I take the dog for a walk.

5:45-6:30 – I have a few bites of the corn I thawed out.  Not hungry today.

6:30 – 9:00 – I work on my next DE assignment.  I’m on Module 8 now and that entails creating a “Home Page” for the Canvas shell.  This will be the page that automatically pops up when a student tries to log into the class. I’m still working from the Canvas platform for Specialty Class 1A at College No. 2 so I’m going to include the introductory video that I made.  I need to satisfy 7 components so the Anonymous Grader will clear me for the next module and I think I’ve done that.  I picked a cool graphic for the top of my home page and then inserted a “Welcome” letter and my introductory video. 

L. needs to screenshot the page and then drop it into the textbox for my DE class when she gets home.  She will bill me for this.

9:00-11:00 – I go through all the PP slides that my teacher posted for Module 1 of the French Cinema class.  The slides have tons of You Tube links to various French movies and clips and I watch every video.  This is so fun!  It’s great to have the guidance from my teacher as I work entirely on my own. Why was it so important for educators to make students come to a brick-and-mortar classroom?  Especially at a set day and time?  Were there actual benefits to this?  I can hardly remember. After I’m done, I take a 15-question quiz…15 out of 15!  Yay!

11:30-12:30 – L. is home and helps me submit my assignment for my DE course.  Her room is packed with art supplies – she really needs her own studio – and she asks me for suggestions on organizing everything.  I have a few immediate ideas that I share with L. but need to sleep on it so my subconscious can start mulling over the problem.

12:30-1:30 – Blog posts as I try to catch up.

1:30-2:00 – Night time routine. Bed.