I’m in the thick of it. I have gotten through about 11 of the 50-odd book/movie-reviews I’m to grade in the next four days, which is not bad. I’m hoping to get through another 20 or so today, leaving ten for tomorrow and ten for Tuesday, which is a national holiday. On Wednesday, I’ll be receiving the Final Essays from my Advanced Composition course, and by that point all the grading for my Public Speaking course should be basically finished… they’re giving their final presentations on Monday and Wednesday of this week, which means my grading will consist mainly of …

… are starting to annoy me. So despite having booked a flight to Saskatoon from Seattle TWICE, since Lime’s credit card isn’t being processed properly — the verification systems keep ganking on it — I haven’t got any bloody thing booked. This is annoying the living hell out of me.

The weight of expectations is heavy, and in families, heavier than in most places. Old rooms, old hallways, old photographs and corners, that’s where old dust goes to rest undisturbed. The people we’ve lived closest to, and loved in the desperate way that only children know how to love, they always have some of that dust in their eyes. They see so much of the past when they look at us, so much of their own hopes, either realized or unfulfilled; so much of their fears evaded or accepted. We, too, begin to find our eyes failing for all the …

I’ve started as of now to have my feeds processed by feedburner. The URI for the new feed is http://feeds.feedburner.com/gordsellar/QdzA but you should be automatically redirected. Still, you may wish to update your subscriptions. UPDATE: The address above has been changed; I accidentally set it as a podcast and intend to have a podcast on a separate feed. So there.