Today we are almost halfway through the March Slice of Life Challenge. My family and I are about halfway through this security line, but not yet halfway through our trip home. On paper, my lessons are less than halfway planned for next week, but in my head I’m way past halfway done. I am not even close to halfway done with grading I was supposedly going to do during March Break.
Statistically, I’m more than halfway through my life.
I tend to think of myself as a glass-half-full sort of person, but sometimes I’m glass-half-empty.
I’m really hopeful that the snow we left behind will be more than half gone when we get back. I’m only one third of the way through our bookclub book, and the next meeting is Friday. No problem. (See: glass half full, above.)
I’m starting to slow down on this list, so I’m almost certainly more than halfway through.
I’ve made eye contact with over half of the babies in this line, and played peekaboo with two. I’m half ready to go home, see the pets and sleep in my own bed, and half wishing we could live in Cayman forever. I halfway wish I’d used the washroom before we got in this line.
Some of our clothes were only half dry when we packed them today. Sigh.
We are not even close to halfway through Trump’s second term, but we are more than halfway through the 2020s.
Many people believe that we are living in the beginning of a new era, the Anthropocene, but my family and I are now at the end of the line, so I’m at the end of this post.
Persistence and Pedagogy 
Did you type this in Jetpack? I am discovering I can write half my post on the app and the other half on my computer. I also am way more than halfway through my life, but I only have 1/4th of a school year left of my teaching career. I’m struggling with the glass half full and glass half empty on this, for sure.
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I did! And that’s how I did the pictures yesterday, too. The switching back and forth is kind of great! Also: what will you do after this year?! I’ve got a few more left, and already I’m both excited and terrified.
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Wonderful ♥️
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Thank you!
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The Ides of SOLC! I like the IDEa of writing while waiting in a line. I’m also wishing there was a Brutus today for our Orange Caesar. Not really, but maybe somehow symbolically. I think your lack of grading progress is probably a sign of a good vacation (glass half full interpretation). Happy reunion with the pets.
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We sat down on the plane & Andre leaned over to remind me it is the Ides of March 🤦🏼♀️. More than halfway home now.
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I enjoyed this poem-like way to meditate on your halfway-ness with so much. A very meta slice! Happy halfway through the SOLC!
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Gotta do what you gotta do while you wait in travel lines. Meta it is!
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Did you read Sherri’s post yesterday about being under the weather? As I read this today, I thought maybe you had written that post…the stream of conscious and play on words.
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I must have missed Sherri’s post yesterday. Off to read it now!
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Amanda,
Clever post. Thank heavens for babies in long lines. I like playing w/ them, too. As I read I thought about the 🍊💩 and wish he were halfway across the river Styx. I hope the return home is more than halfway wonderful and Monday brings lots of fun vacation stories.
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Halfway across the Styx – or halfway to hell in a hand basket… or anything other than only 6 weeks in…
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I’ll drive him down the highway to hell myself if necessary. I don’t think the *Tesler* can get him there since he can’t drive. He just sits behind the wheel like a toddler.
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Loved how this slice meanders through the airport line and the concept of being halfway there. What a way to capture the your thoughts and the environment.
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Thanks! Still meandering our way home, but nearly there.
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Clever way to tie half of the challenge to the other halfway aspects of your life.
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This post was super fun to read! My favorite part was playing peekaboo with the babies, but it was all great.
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Peekaboo with babies is the reward for standing in airport lines!
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Clever from start to finish, the whole thing, not one bit half-a**ed! Enjoy your comfortable bed. Give everyone an A (the whole class), and thanks for such a wonderful reading experience. Welcome home.
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Give them all an A! Excellent plan! I love it!
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Welcome home? I’m half serious. Remember that time March Break lasted until September? Sometimes I’m nostalgic about that time. I got absolutely no school work done and am now regretting it. But also probably won’t do it tomorrow!
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So much fun to take measure of all your halves, a few thirds and a quarter. Can’t believe you’re at the end of your vacation already. *I* wanted it to go on a little longer. Safe travels and happy arrival home.
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So clever…I love all the fractional parts and glass half empty/hall full references! I am happy that you didn’t spend your break getting that grading done or those lesson plans completed–they’ll get done (or not) as needed once you are back on working time! Enjoy being back at home–and all those memories of that family time away!
Kim
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Creative nonfiction par excellence. What a perfect form for the story you have to tell. Have a safe rest of your journey home.
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What a creative way to write using all the various half situations.
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I love the fractional sense of time in your post, with your mix of humour and more darker time stamps. The line about your life being halfway done really sat with me. I have been saying that out loud a lot lately. The move of you from a utopian trip to your Trump reference, and what you are coming into is a great contrast.
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