sothacid left about ten minutes ago for his work-study interview. After that comes his first day of classes (today it's Organic Chemistry, German, then the Organic Chemistry lab). I packed him most of a lunch--I wasn't sure about the entree while assembling it, which we decided this morning would be creamed corn with cubed, fried Spam--and wrote DO NOT ( Read more... )

This evening we'll be taking a "fancy camping trip" to Reno, where we'll stay in a hotel overnight before viewing an apartment there. If we like how it looks, we'll arrange to get the unit they'll be cleaning out around the first of July. The car should be shipped here by then, too, as should Alan-a-Dale Parsons-Turing ("Alan" or "Alan-a-Dale" ( Read more... )

I've got the urge to read The Screwtape Letters again. Mere Christianity I can take or leave, and I've never been able to get very far in it, but I actually enjoyed the Letters. Will be interesting going through it without needing to catalog everything for a book report, and this time I'll try to not get distracted by rooting for Wormwood (who ( Read more... )