I received a ton of paper yesterday that I'm slowly working through. I try to grade 10 a day during a semester, and so, that's how I'm continuing to roll. My staggering of essays got messed up because of the extended spring break, so I'll finish them off slowly.
Ryan want's to co-write a paper together about plague literature, because he believes that that particular topic is very relevant at the moment. I agree with him, but I'm not sure what to write about. I've read a bit of plague literature, but don't really know what we want to discuss/analyze. I came up with Shaun of the Dead and the consumption of technology, but that might be something that I put on the back burner, because Ryan didn't seem to interested in it. I think we should still focus on zombie analysis when it's all said and done though, possibly 28 Days Later and isolation of community. Maybe that's something. Or possibly Camus's The Plague. But that's been written about a lot in the past, and no new scholarship has been done on it in like 50 years, so I'm not too sure anyone is going to be super interested in it. I need to bust out these essays and really start thinking about it. But I'm just not too sure.
Otherwise, I'm not going to lie, days of social isolation haven't hit me too hard. I've enjoyed staying home and petering about the house. I put the bounce house up for the kids this morning and weeded the flower beds. Or let me reiterate, I started weeding the flower beds, because they are a jungle that haven't been done in like 2 years, and I'm slowly working my way through them. But there's a lot there and I'm not stressing too much about it.
I've enjoyed starting the blog up again, even though no one reads it. It's nice to stress the writing skills a bit and reflect upon the day. I hope to keep it up after we get back to normal. I hope summer is this relaxing, but I guess we'll wait and ses.
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