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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!

And now they're up there (they're all sleeping together in the playroom) singing these Austin & Ally ( Read more... )

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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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There's a welcome sound of rain falling outside right now, and has been for nearly an hour. The wind even picked up to a more stormy level a few minutes ago. Illinois has been in drought for over a month, the southern part of the state - Ooo! Thunder! - having it even worse, and so this couldn't be more timely. I don't know if this will conjure ( Read more... )

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Today is my niece and goddaughter Grace Jean's tenth birthday: ten years of knowing her, and a richness and pleasure in that which I never could have imagined before she was born.Age Zero: 2002

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The weekend ended up being less fun and social than I had hoped, with the bulk of my energy going into grading instead, pleased at least to see how much my Catholicism students who had started to take it easy instead seriously rallied and did some very impressive work ( Read more... )

I have done a profound amount of writing and typing in the last week or ten days, but none of it has been in my journal. I've got to figure out how to be more attentive with that ( Read more... )

Things have been low-key here as I take things easy and rest up. Some work and some play. The work has been interesting, really. I had to tweak my Catholicism course for the next semester, dropping what I've been using as my opening, "orienting" text, and moving back to a symposium article that I used for similar purposes in my Introduction To ( 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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