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stoutfellow1. 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.
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.
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Date: 2013-08-09 10:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-08-14 02:25 pm (UTC)When I first came here, we were on the quarter system; since a quarter contains only ten weeks of instruction, we were able to start in September. (Spring Quarter, however, ended about a month later than Spring Semester does.)
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Date: 2013-08-14 03:43 pm (UTC)Fall semester didn't end until the end of January, though, as I remember.
Oh, and when I went to Colorado State University, also on the semester system, we didn't start till the end of August, at least, and the semester ended just before Christmas. Indiana University didn't start till the end of August, either, and ended just before Christmas, so it wasn't even a Midwestern thing, not completely.
So it really doesn't have to be that way [g]. Not that you have any control over it...