Ah, Indiana

So much prettier above the clouds than below.

I failed to remember my camera on the jaunt from the hotel to my cousin’s wedding a couple weeks ago.  I succeeded, however, in remembering to bring my camera in my carry-on on the way back home.  
 

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Good news

I got paid on time, and the correct amount.
CLOB, on the other hand, has decided 40 weeks’ gestation is insufficient for his purposes.  I predict he comes out with a driver’s license and a six-pack of Bud.

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Done.

This morning I blazed through 100 years of history and even had time to spare for a bit of discussion about history and memory (Never thought I’d be thanking Roy Foster for a chapter on 1798 that tied things together pretty neatly at the end of a class on the 19th century, but there it [...]

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Schvitz

For the first time today, I biked across town to the chiropractor.  It’s not roasting out yet, but it’s pretty muggy, and I am a sweating machine.  It’s a good thing they didn’t do the interferential current (nice phrase for electroshock) therapy this morning, because there’s no way they would’ve gotten the sticky pads to [...]

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What did you expect?

Obama follows custom and inserts a written prayer into a crevice at the Western Wall while in Jerusalem recently.  An Orthodox seminary student fishes it out and hands it over to a newspaper.  Surprisingly, it does not read, ”There is no God but Allah, and Muhammed is his prophet.”

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The relief, I can taste it…

I’m one regular class away from the finish line.  All I have left to do is finish grading essays and hand those back, then breeze through the 20th century (Home Rule! WWI! 1916 Rising! Treaty! Civil War! Free State! Mid-century torpor! The Troubles! Good Friday! Celtic Tiger! Woo hoo!) and get them to think deep [...]

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You know what I love?

Gorgeous weather.  The kind that lets me stretch out on the bed upstairs in the middle of the day with the window open to nap and rest my poor defunct back, and be soothed by lovely fresh breezes and the occasional ice cream truck melody.  Yankee Doodle Dandy, indeed!
Also, a short wait at the BMV. [...]

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An inauspicious start to the day

While leaving the house to retrieve a paper from an out-of-town neighbor’s stoop, the doorknob came off in my hand.  I instantly had visions of me banging on the front door begging any passersby to liberate me from my own house as though a rabid dog was cooped up in it with me, followed by [...]

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Signs that God loves me and wants me to be happy

1. The existence of butter.
2. Low humidity.
3. No cucumbers in our weekly produce basket, and only 4 small ears of corn.  Instead, lots of green beans and (be still my beating heart) the first peaches and apricots of the season.

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Take it from me

Don’t watch The Dark Knight two days after watching The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.  It won’t ruin either movie by any stretch, but after having been thoroughly emotionally wrung out by one of the most conceptually simple (man has stroke; man communicates with blinks of one eye) but aesthetically rich films I’ve ever seen, [...]

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