“I saw you over spring break,” my student says sheepishly, as if she’s confessing to something she did wrong.

“Really? Where?”

She hesitantly names the local art-house movie theater. “It was Saturday night?”

“Oh! I was there for Back to the Future,” the classic movie they were showing last weekend. “It was so fun. You should have said hi.”

She . . . → Read More: Professor Amiga

I’ve blogged before about my need for structure and a schedule, as well as my problem of going overboard. Since my last post on list-need, I soothed myself by making a 12″ x 18″ calendar of the next four weeks’ classes and assignments as well as the major deadlines I have coming up. Before you think . . . → Read More: Overboard, Overtake, Overwhelm

As always, around this time of year, I’m struggling with that feeling of floundering in tasks I might forget or not start in time or already not have time to do or already have forgotten. I have a tendency to over-make lists, or I have in the past. Relying, constantly, on a to do list . . . → Read More: List-Need