Catching Up

I wondered how it would be trying to live through Fall without a writing project to fill my abundant time. Well that challenge has been considerably ramped up by my damaged back. My recovery progresses, but very slowly. If I walk too far, I suffer all night. Pooey.

The most difficult thing is sitting. Hence my absence from here. But thanks to reading and living close to many good food stores, I survive. And I mentalbate: I feel almost autistic when faced with certain challenges. Instead of scaring me, these certain challenges are like a drug. I was good at aspects of math as a kid and, for a while, took Math 101 at UBC starting when I was eleven. I still cannot believe that.

Anyway, PAL needs a lot of data stored, tracking the ongoing activities of a lot of people going through a multi, multi-stage process and with different cohorts starting at indiscriminate times. And it has to be a very flexible system. I took to the challenge like a drowning man to air. Here is a sample of a work in progress, wherein I try to chart how data will flow.

And of course, I bake.

And my course has started at Emily Carr — two sections of the same course: one section has seventeen women enrolled and the other has eight women and one man. I am using new lesson plans and assigning fewer assignments and the change has re-energized my teaching — even with back pain.