Weekend Retrospective in Unordered List with Minimal Nesting

[dawn_felagund]

• Every now and then, I have one of those social butterfly weekends. This was one of those weekends. Bobby and I met our friends Tristan and Don for Indian food on Friday night. On Saturday, we hosted a Burns supper for six of our friends in the SCA. It was so, so much fun. The food, prepared by Bobby (except vanilla ice cream by moi), was fabulous

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[tarion_anarore]

Poor Alex! I hope they settled it themselves and that you/Bobby didn't have to break it up.

I almost wish it would simply remain cold here. Almost. I'm quite over winter weather, but just when it starts to feel nice, the temperature will plummet 50 degrees in 24 hours. o.O

[dawn_felagund]

Bobby had to break it up! With one arm! D^:

I do have some measure of appreciation for the fact that it's been steadily cold. My internal thermostat has actually had a chance to adjust. It was in the 40s on Monday and felt like spring. It only lasted a few hours, but if we had had several days of that, then the plunge back to 15F (the current temp) would have been even worse.

[tarion_anarore]

Ugh! Talk about insult to injury.

My internal thermostat might be permanently broken.

[with_rainfall]

Poor Alex. He's the youngest, right? I'm glad he seems to be recovering (and yes, my dog gives us pleading hey-I'm-ravenous-please-feed-me! looks after an ample breakfast, so food is definitely their raison d'etre). How frustrating for Bobby to be injured again, when it wasn't his fault!

I'm glad you're taking a break from teaching: one less thing to be stressed about (and, hint hint, more time to write for B2MEM!).
When you say you're the only person in class... does everyone else stream their lectures online?

As per usual, I'm not sure how you juggle so much, but more power to you!

We're in the midst of summer here. It's times like these that I'm grateful to.live in Sydney, because being on the coast we're spared the worst of the heat inland. Adelaide in particular has been scorching.

[dawn_felagund]

Alex is the older, actually! And he's significantly larger than Lancelot too. Alex is 80lb/36kg, and Lance is 68lb/31kg. Alex is a big pansy, though! :D

When you say you're the only person in class... does everyone else stream their lectures online?

It's an online class, so I am literally the only person enrolled in the class! :D My professor and I discuss each work online and then I turn in my work, and that's about it. (It's been nice in that the usual hours each week I'd have to devote to online discussions have been drastically reduced, since I'm only communicating with my professor.)

As per usual, I'm not sure how you juggle so much, but more power to you!

A ridiculous obsession with efficiency, mostly, coupled with the almost complete sacrifice of free time. ;)

I am so looking forward to some of the latter back ...

We're in the midst of summer here.Oh my, and it's even reached our news here (which seems to often forget that there are countries outside the U.S., unless we're at war with them) how ridiculous your summers

[dreamflower02]

Ack! Dog fights are the worst! Sugar and Sissy used to have some doozies--more than once requiring a vet visit. But when we would separate them by putting them in different rooms with a child gate, they'd sit there gazing at one another mournfully. (And they didn't even need crumbs to fight over, either.)

Umm...who is Princess Dashkova, and why are her memoirs significant?

I'm so glad that Bobby was not more seriously injured--that had to be dreadfully scary.

I miss the SCA. *sigh*

[dawn_felagund]

But when we would separate them by putting them in different rooms with a child gate, they'd sit there gazing at one another mournfully.

Alex and Lance would probably do the same! They adore each other. Bobby and I often joke that they like each other more than they like either of us!

(And they didn't even need crumbs to fight over, either.)

Lol. My neighbor's dogs are that way. (He has two Boston terriers and a Yorkie.) We'll hear screeching and carrying on and my neighbor yelling, "Lily! Joey! LILY!! JOEY!! Goddamn it!" :D

Alex and Lance only ever fight over food. We still laugh over the time, at a cookout we had around Lancelot's first birthday, that we got each of them one of those Frosty Paws dog ice creams, and they got in a fight because I guess Alex was standing too close to Lance while he was just trying to enjoy his ice cream. We still call Lance "Ice Cream Fighter" sometimes.

Umm...who is Princess Dashkova, and why are her memoirs significant?She was the best friend of Catherine the Great. She participated in the

[dreamflower02]

If we'd stayed in Mississippi, I'd still be involved. I had only just taken over the office of Herald when we found out we were going to move.

I miss it dreadfully, but it's just not the same here.

[dawn_felagund]

Things changed in our barony, at least from where Bobby and I were sitting. We had a series of negative experiences that soured us both. We just weren't having fun.

We've decided to play more on our terms. We have some great friends, so we'll hang with them and do the things we love. We both enjoy demos, so we're going to start there.

We're not going to make the mistake of being officers or too deeply involved as volunteers again; that was just too cutthroat last time, and recognition is not why I do things, so it seemed weird to be the subject of vitriol for doing a job that needed doing.

[angelica_ramses]

Did you actually read the whole of Don Quijote? I don't knbow what's the standard in Spain (*waves to Russandol*) but few people here outside of the literature majors are expected to have more than a superficial read of the most famous parts (the windmills and so on) and move on.I'm truying to remember what the expectations for average high school courses are but I think there's more reading of plays (mostly everybody has read or knows the plot of Fuenteovejuna!)

The 18th century isn't my favourite either but the topic of your paper sounds very interesting to me.

Dog fights: never ended at the vet but Benito seems to be always looking for an excuse to start some pack-climbing event (not that there are many dogs to elbow out to the top :D)!

The weather is one of the top topics of this month: you've been freezing and we've been boiling: Thursday last week, the real feel got to 48°C!

[dawn_felagund]

I did read all of DQ for my Renaissance class last semester (in English translation). Bobby had taken the same class a couple of years ago, and he only had to read excerpts in an anthology. Well, the university is switching to trying to provide as many texts online as possible (versus making us buy books), so I didn't have to buy the anthology and, therefore, had to read the whole thing.

I didn't mind, though ... I loved it. I regretted that I only had two weeks to read it in and so had to push through parts that I really would have preferred to spend more time with. It is top of my list to reread as soon as I have fun-reading time again, and once I get my Spanish back up to an acceptable level, I'd like to read it again in Spanish.

At age 12, I had to read the play Man of La Mancha, which is based on DQ and which I was obsessed with for most of that year. :D

Thursday last week, the real feel got to 48°C!

Ye gods. I think I'd prefer the deep cold. :(

[indy1776]

Oh, no! Poor Bobby.

Yeah, the cold is ridiculous. We got up to 53 a couple of days ago and it felt wonderful. We're back in the teens now.

Reading Thomas Paine sounds interesting. But the rest of it… Uh-uh. (I got lucky; I never had to read Don Quixote. Actually, I don't think I had to read anything from Spanish literature in any of my classes, college included. The only "books" we read-- in high school-- were specifically written for Spanish learners.)

[dawn_felagund]

We got into the 40s on Monday, and Bobby opened the window in the car when he went out to lunch. (Which I thought was pushing it, personally, but it did feel nice for, oh, about six hours! :D

[indy1776]

I think it was 3 when I woke up this morning. But it'll be warmer for the next couple of days before it gets cold again. (I like cold weather. This is too much!)

I'll look on Gutenburg for Paine's stuff. I've heard enough about it to know I'd find it intriuging. I know I've read excerpts, but I don't remember them. (I have access to my Dad's iPad, but it's work-owned, so I don't put much of anything on it.)

DQ is one of those books that I think I should read just because it is what it is, but given that my to-read list is 43 books long (and those are just the ones I own, not the library books)… I don't think it'll be anytime soon. And definitely in the translation; I barely remember any Spanish.