Small Goals, Small Achievements

 

Bina Pishi is doing better.

I turned in the two peer-reviews. It was exhausting to say the least. Both of the papers were really bad. 

I find online teaching to be really truly exhausting. I have been teaching creative writing classes on a voluntary basis. I do learn things from it, for sure. But, I can also surely say, I do not necessarily enjoy it. The truth is, I do not get that kind of kick out of teaching. Teaching is not something that rocks my boat. It is something I have learned to do reasonably well, and it puts food on my table. Nothing more, nothing less. I have been teaching too much. And maybe if I taught just that one workshop every week, I would feel invigorated by it. But, teaching two classes, and a workshop on top of that, isn't quite working out for me. 

Highlights of this: My cub submits his thesis. 

I cooked an almost perfect parshe macher jhal. 

And, most importantly, a poem of mine gets accepted by a journal. 

(Takeaway: Keep writing. Keep reading. Keep submitting. Keep thinking.)

Goals for the coming week: Do some research on sonnets. 

Begin to write the creative writing paper. 

Finish revising the short story. 

Picture Credit: Catrin Weitz Stein (Sourced from Internet)