what's a highlight

[mindstalk]

Of your week? Something that brought you joy?

The weekend filk convention was pretty good for me. Later a friend asked me *about* filk, and I buried her in recommendations; finding and re-listening to stuff gave me joy, I don't know about her. :p I've been reading the Letters of Tolkien, straight through not just the cool ones with 'lore', and it's been surprisingly interesting. I've had a burst of Duolingo activity, hitting a couple of game thresholds (helped by playing while listening to filk with not my full attention), and yes I've learned some more Spanish along the way.

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[elusiveat]

Today I received an unsolicited email from a student thanking me for all of the work on the course she is taking with me, and particularly for my work to make the transition to remote learning as easy as possible.

That was extremely welcome because one of the things that has been making me crazy about recorded lectures is that there's no direct feedback on how students are receiving them.

[mindstalk]

Excellent!

Yeah, I recall your post questioning your remote teaching choices.

[elusiveat]

Exactly : )

[mindstalk]

Another one was re-reading this fanfic last night. https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6668903/1/The-Black-Company-in-Middle-Earth

I didn't mean to! I started it as a way to get some low-thought fiction in before bed. (I've read it 2-3 times before, and it's 'nice'.) Then... I just kept reading. Oops!

[thomasyan]

Store-bought dumplings. Yum!