My Week Ahead

Other than the fact that I have a stack of papers that need grading (a small stack) this will be an easy teaching week. But we have a house to get ready for new tenants who want to move in on the first, so it will actually also be a crazy week. This is why I can't teach anymore-- not being able to only focus on one thing is impossible for me.

I'll spend today painting a kitchen for someone else. We need to put down tile in that kitchen and also a few other touches throughout the house before it's ready for these new tenants. It's a cute little bungalow style house again-- hardwood floors, nice little touches like killer etched door knobs. Unlike a lot of the houses, these don't appear to have been ruined by being painted. I need to clean them nicely to make sure, but they're so cool! Beautiful real old-growth (it was built in the 30s) pine in the hallway & closets, which we will just finish off in polyurethane and enjoy the natural look of the wood.

Anyway. It just makes for a very busy life-- constantly remodeling houses + trying to keep up with my own + other duties/jobs hobbies. I'm not complaining. It's fun to do-- I like fixing up these old historic houses. Trying to make it so the touches aren't weirdly ahistoric but still look nice-- like in one house we looked at that had ultra modern looking tile in one area-- looked SO off.

Now to teach "A Raisin in the Sun", which seems oddly appropriate to this day.