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July 20, 2012 at 10:10pm
The nieces were strangely complaint as I made them turn off their insipid Disney Channel shows (the latest rage) and shuffle off for bed. Then I realized they were watching the shows on their iPods with headphones on. Nice!
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[From Facebook:] A day with interminable Monopoly-based games punctuated with cute niece dialogue. Oceanopoly, I find, has the virtues of some ecological awareness and science facts on the cars, leaving Yorkieopoly to just look insipid in its worship of diminutive dogs ( Read more... )

A seriously cold night in New Orleans - almost down to freezing! I know, I know, as a northern Illinois native, that hardly seems excessive, but in pre-Katrina housing, that means no insulation in the house, along with 11 foot ceilings, and so New Orleans remains the coldest place I've ever lived, despite the fabulously mild winter we've been ( Read more... )

I ordered another JibJab the other day, because I'm dorky like that. I thought that this one came out pretty well, with nephew Nathan now joining the nieces, and Uncle Mike filling in to round out the band and remind them who visited this indignity upon them.

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A bit of Christmas fun for the nieces. As I wrote to them, in my imagination they are not only always happy, but they're also not shy about singing.

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Eep! Need to really update. But in short: school, school, school, talking with Sophie on FaceTime.

And this still amuses me to no end: The Greatest Engagement Photos of All Time?

An absolutely awesome story from Notre Dame Magazine in an article about long-time professor Emil Hofman:Hofman, now 90, exemplifies that rare combination found in all the great teachers. He was a lion on the stage who commanded a crowded auditorium without a microphone, yet he somehow conveyed a hint of his sly sense of humor and joy in teaching. ( Read more... )

Oof! Just finished a seven-hour run of research-writing, after finishing my classes this afternoon. How can I know all I know, and have the fabled Irish Gift of the Gab, and still academic writing is as slow as it is?

Time to go home!

Highlight of the day, my Catholicism student Richard, still impressed and amazed by the difference between ( Read more... )