haters

Seems like Mrs. Beeton has found herself surrounded by haters lately. To start, she's in the library for two hours on Super Bowl Sunday because her students have a paper due on Friday. Extended office hours are the only way to appease them. Then, she opens her email. A student reporter inquires about her policy of BANNING laptops from her classroom. Does she care to comment? Then, a text message from a friend. Will she and Mr. Beeton be coming to a Super Bowl party being hosted by a mutual friend? Mr. Beeton swears he already RSVP'ed no to that soiree. And, finally, Mrs. Beeton just found out that an old colleague will be interviewing for an open position in her program - a position with considerable power. This former colleague looks like the Joker. Scary. When she confides in a friend, he dooms her to an increased course load if the Joker gets hired. Sigh. Stop bringing me down, people.

And, this, Mrs. Beeton reminds herself, is why she started The Happy Homekeeper. After several other failed blog attemps (one where she served as the ghost writer for Ella, one about wine, one that was a bit too truthful to not cause issues), she settled on this one because the only way to pull herself out of a funk is to cook some chilli or do some laudry. 

Tomorrow is a research day. Laurie Colwin, Diana Abu-Jaber await.

Keep sweeping, Martha