making mortifying personal announcements on my silly blog; also i’m running eleventy now

I fell behind on writing these up because I’ve been under the weather, so I’m doing a quick list for this week.

As I wrote last week, I’m switching up how I number my week notes: I’m now using the year and week numbers, so this is week-notes/2026/W1. It will cover the last few days of 2025 and the first week of 2026. I’m late posting this (I backdated it), but I’m planning to get these up Sunday nights or Mondays.

Doing

I had some kind of stomach bug or food poisoning on N...

As a matter of business, I’m going to tweak how these week notes work starting with the next one (the first of 2026). Instead of incrementing numbers (this is week-notes/043/), I’m going to number them based on the week of the year (so next week will be week-notes/2026/W1/). This will affect no one but me. It does mean I need to be more regimented in doing these

Doing

I don’t have a ton to say this week — it was mostly a slog to get to Friday. The last week before break is always brutal as a teacher, but now we have two weeks off that I sorely need. On Saturday, I went to see a local production of The Nutcracker; I don’t think ballet is my thing, but my friend’s daughter was in it and I think it meant a lot that I showed up. I also...