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I'm off to bed, after preparing for tomorrow's class. This will be my first real lecture. I'm feeling better at the end of today than I did yesterday, having beaten the cold into a compromise over my immune system. I've got a list of terms at the top of my lecture notes that I'm going to write down on the dry erase board for the students to copy ( Read more... )

I managed to borrow The Mom's digital camera recently, so I can take pictures of a few items I'm planning to sell. I figured it would also be a great time to get recent photos of my furry babies. I cannot help but inflict them upon you all, but I will be kind and place them all behind cuts.

( Magnus )

I accomplished quite a bit on Wednesday. I submitted two books I plan to use for the course via e-mail, which takes some of the pressure off. Originally I was also going to use The Search for Modern China, by Jonathan Spence, but I'm not finished reading it. Since I'd rather include more primary resource material, and since my lectures are going ( Read more... )

Michigan never fails to disappoint. The beginning of May was amazingly cold, around 50 degrees, and it's ending at ninety. Poor Maxwell is dragging his ass around, as the heat is not his friend. Loki is fine and Magnus . . . well Magnus doesn't always know if he wants to go outside. I suspect he'll be looking for any excuse to spend several ( Read more... )

Earlier last week, Aunt KV asked if I would check on her pets over the weekend. Her boys had a track meet out of town, so needed someone local to peek in a couple of times a day. KV was going to call me when she headed out. I put the information on my planner and everything. So why did I not think about it until I woke up this morning? As far ( Read more... )

Just when you think he's not going to pull some assholish crap, he strikes ( Read more... )

I was downstairs speaking with DK when Magnus appeared at the sun room door.

With a bird in his mouth ( Read more... )