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[wareagle]

Apparently today is National Cat Day.

That explains a lot around my house.

[mamselle]

Four months ago, I got new gym shorts. One month ago, they disappeared. What gives?

Did you find a green marker in their place?

M.

[aside]

Four months ago, I got new gym shorts. One month ago, they disappeared. What gives?

Elastic.

[ergative]

Multiple Choice: A mass email has gone around that obviously got sent to a much larger list than intended. Do you

a) quietly notify the sender that their list is messed up?
b) hit 'reply all' and tell everyone else on the list that you shouldn't be on it?
c) hit 'reply all' and tell people not to hit 'reply all'?
c) Hit 'reply all' and take the opportunity to invite people to your Finnegan's Wake reading group?

All of these happened* today, but only one made me scream.

*I only assume (a), because I blessedly did not witness it

[Anselm]

Most of us are here alive today reading The Fora because of this heroic man.  I just figured that I would mention him here instead of starting a new thread.  I read about him years ago but forgot his name since then. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Arkhipov_(vice_admiral)

[Parasaurolophus]

Four months ago, I got new gym shorts. One month ago, they disappeared. What gives?

Did you find a green marker in their place?

M.

Four months ago, I got new gym shorts. One month ago, they disappeared. What gives?

Elastic.

You guys win today! :D

[Juvenal]

I age today.

To mark the occasion, I have interrupted my normal reading schedule to read a new viking novel, since these tend to come out around this time every year.

*contentment*

I'd have thought, what with the obligatory raiding and pillaging, Vikings would have little time to sit down and write a novel.  Live and learn.

[Anselm]

I age today.

To mark the occasion, I have interrupted my normal reading schedule to read a new viking novel, since these tend to come out around this time every year.

*contentment*

I'd have thought, what with the obligatory raiding and pillaging, Vikings would have little time to sit down and write a novel.  Live and learn.

It's an ongoing saga with them.

[Parasaurolophus]

Four months ago, I got new gym shorts. One month ago, they disappeared. What gives?

Did you find a green marker in their place?

M.

Sometime Wednesday or Thursday, my neon green gym shoes were taken from the gym. So... I guess that's the opposite of a green marker?

I'll scour the seas and put my low cunning to work until vengeance is mine!

[mamselle]

Totally unrelated to any of the above (probably)...

I found an interesting quote.

"Cash alone won't breed passion" - Brecht

May explain certain things about teaching, generally....

M.

[polly_mer]

https://www.aip.org/fyi/2019/academies-panel-delve-critical-questions-facing-us-rd

Another entry in "we're really, really, really short on people who can do the research we need done in specific areas and that's contributing to a lot of foreseeable problems that will affect the average American in the next 10 years or less".

[mamselle]

Most of us are here alive today reading The Fora because of this heroic man.  I just figured that I would mention him here instead of starting a new thread.  I read about him years ago but forgot his name since then. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Arkhipov_(vice_admiral)

Wow.

I missed seeing this.

Thank you for posting it.

I don't recall any references to it in the news at the time (obviously, some dimensions were unknown.

I do recall the news about the Bay of Pigs more generally, then, but as a kid, didn't understand much.

M.

[Parasaurolophus]

Strikes are inconvenient, but they don't amount to extortion.

Also, they only work because they're inconvenient.

[mamselle]

I realized this AM....no wonder I was tired after teaching last night.

In the course of three music lessons with a 5-year-old, a 13-year-old, and a twelve-year-old, we literally discussed and wrangled with issues of epistemology, aesthetics, and jurisprudence.

These in the course of tears over insisting that she KNEW she hadn't skipped the 1st ending of the song, confusing her brother, who was singing it (she had), both of them in terms of keeping the music going instead of stopping to discuss the issue, and the middle-schooler in terms of my NOT letting him get by with uneven speed drills "because telling me not to do it makes me want to do it more."

I hope their passion, curiosity and good humor stick with them throughout their lives.

(I also hope I survive their explorations and use of me as a sounding-board!)

But it could be so much worse.

I'm...wryly...grateful.

M.

[Parasaurolophus]

PSA: secretions are not super secret. To 'secret' a thing is to hide it; to 'secrete' a thing, however, is to exude it.