Updated on July 23. I had a bad week in some ways, so I neglected to finish this list. Since part of the point of this list is that I have many reasons to be grateful even on a “bad” week, I am completing it now.
- Good meeting with prospective student
- Helping an independent study student with questions on homework
- Comfortable cycling weather (July 13)
- Lunch with wife and colleagues (July 14)
- Good meeting with the a school counselor
- Informative meeting with department head
- Leading a productive meeting on our upcoming REU proposal
- Participating in a good meeting about our upcoming conference
- Lunch with friends (July 15)
- Teaching a friend how to make cookies and cream marshmallows
- The marshmallows were delicious
- A nice walk, including looking at a yard sale
- My wife taking friends out an a Pokemon hunt
- Playing Battle Sheep with friends
- Watching a good movie about the futility of vengeance, the importance of considering collateral damage, and the power of friendship (Captain America: Civil War).
- Voting on my favorite State Fair food
- Planning a visit to some good friends
- Helping a student with her homework
- Watching a thunderstorm
- My wife’s jury-rigged hail protection system for our vegetable garden was effective.
- Grilling after the storm.
- My first non-thesis master’s degree defense as a member of the committee
- Helping set up a laptop and projector for a movie after community meal
