1. How to read faster but with better comprehension.
2. Whether I should let my Creative Writing students choose the writing they want to do and focus on skills, or whether I should assign a particular type of writing so that they get practice in multiple genres.
3. How to buy a new printer and which one to get? Should I get a tank style one? Should I get a HP one? (mine died a while ago)
4. How to ask for help when I'm really bad at it.
5. How to get to know my students (and their names) better.
6. How to keep to a 1400 calorie diet when all I want is a big piece of carrot cake... and a Marie Callander's pot pie. (We lived on those during the pandemic and I love them...)
7. How to limit the amount of beef I eat.
8. How to deal with cellphones in the classroom.
9. How to call parents without being afraid that they will yell at me rather than listen when I say that I'm trying to help their kid.
10. Whether I should donate all of my books to the Friends of the Public library and only buy books that I'm going to put in my classroom or buy books that I'm going to put on my Kindle because "Do I really need all of these books?" is really a valid question. I'd be more organized without them.
11. How to get over this sense that our country is currently doomed either way that this election goes, and not be afraid of some sort of impending civil ... well, not war exactly, but definitely conflict. Massive civil conflict.
12. How to buy a house in this stupid economy on a single income when, as previously mentioned, you're addicted to books and fountain pens and frivolous things you don't really need. (I suppose the answer to this is "exert self control", but that is a deeper problem.)
13. How to finish a novel that I'm writing and then edit it and then ask people to read it with a critical eye.
I think I have the rest figured out. I'm not sure.
