When the news came that one of Henry's colleagues was going to retire, his first thought was "I guess I'll have to say goodbye to him", not about the party it would give. Henry wasn't fond of parties, and parties with colleagues - they never seemed to want to talk about work outside work - weren't much better. When professor Celestin herself had ( Read more... )

It's Henry's twenty-eighth birthday. It's also his first anniversary of being an honored professor of the university, and that's much more important ( Read more... )