Varia

1. After months (years?) of absence, Haagen-Dazs has returned to the shelves of Shop'n'Save. I celebrated by buying two pints.

2. Today, as I was preparing to take the dogs for a walk, Gracie was running around me so excitedly that she actually spun out. (Only momentarily, and no one was hurt.)

3. Gemini, the eighth and last book in the House of Niccolo series, is back in print, and I finally have a copy, which I've begun reading.

4. I finished reading my first e-book, Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book, which deserves a post of its own. I'm close to finishing The Pickwick Papers, which I last read when I was in fourth or fifth grade, and I truly wonder how much of it I understood then. (Somewhere around here I have the book report, in pencil, which I wrote back then. Perhaps I'll dig it out.)

5. Classes resume week after next; I'll be teaching Calc II and the Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometry class. I've been lazing all summer, and will have to start getting back in gear. I'll probably go onto campus three or four times next week, just to warm up.

A Man for Some Seasons

While searching for something else, I ran across this bit, from A Man for All Seasons.

Sir Thomas More: Why not be a teacher? You'd be a fine teacher; perhaps a great one.
Richard Rich: If I was, who would know it?
Sir Thomas More: You; your pupils; your friends; God. Not a bad public, that.

Words to live by, for those of us in the profession.