Under (Low) Pressure

Gah. Only one week - finals - remains in the semester; a week from today I'll be winging my way West for the holidays. I was planning on doing some Christmas shopping between now and then - today in particular - but it's pretty nasty out there. The weather is chilly and wet, and those words will change to "cold and white" as the day wears on. Nor do the next few days look any better....

Ah, well. I will be having a bit more free time next week, and hope to write some more substantive posts - two or three book reviews, some thoughts on gender in popular song, maybe one or two others. AND... as of next Tuesday evening, I should finally have a high-speed Internet hookup. I'm looking forward to finally being able to visit audio and video sites (waiting a minute or two for a two- or three-second buffer to be built takes a lot out of the experience), and to not groaning when someone sends me a multi-megabyte e-mail.

Monday is the calculus final; Tuesday is the department final (stupid fingers) party; the dogsitters (two of them this year) will visit to meet Gracie and Buster and learn the setup on Wednesday; the take-homes in geometry and linear algebra are due Thursday afternoon; I'll post grades on Friday; Saturday is a travel day; and Sunday is the family holiday get-together. It'll be good to get some R&R.