I’m back
I’ve returned from my vacation with only a few days to spare before classes start up again (Midwestern U. begins its winter term insanely early). I spent Christmas day with my family, all of us opening presents, eating ourselves silly in the middle of the day, and then playing a game of Trivial Pursuit that never quite ended. Someone (I suspect it was my adorable but sniffling six-year-old cousin) gave me a lovely cold in the head, but other gifts were much more pleasant. The east coast was balmy all through my trip, and in New York I ended up doing a lot of walking around Central Park with my friend R. The sun shone in that oblique way it does in winter, and it was breezy but almost warm enough not to wear a coat, and we saw one of New York’s peregrine falcons via a telescope someone had set up in the southeast end of the park. And I finally got to visit the Fountain Pen Hospital in person, where I gazed longingly at all the pens I can’t afford but covet. It was nice to be away, but it’s also nice to be back. Or at least it will be until the next bout of freezing rain.
Now I’m catching up on blogs when I should be going to the grocery store. In a few days I’ll have more of substance to say. In the meantime, go read the latest few posts at frizzyLogic: qB has been thinking about foxes, thinking, and negative capability. And now I really must think about the assigned readings for my two composition sections this term.
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