The past two weeks...

Generally, not much happens in my day that could be considered excitement--lots of reading, lots of writing, lots of grading, but not much else. However, the past two weeks have included several events more noteworthy than usual:

1. Bomb scare at UMass. The whole campus was shut down for the morning so the course I teach was canceled. Thank goodness I stayed up late the night before to finish my lecture! Turns out to have been a class project that got into the wrong hands. Don't ask...

2. Visit from Tony. Good times.

3. General student strike at UMass, meaning that students and faculty will stage a walk-out for two days. Issues include no contract for graduate student employees (me!), high fees, and lack of diversity funding.

4. I worked it out so that I could take a little time off from homework to watch the Packers-Vikings play this afternoon, since I hadn't watched a game yet this year. Apparently the Vikings suck so much that Fox doesn't even want to show them anymore, as the network switched to a different game right after the start of the second half. Choice words were yelled at the TV.

5. Ummm, I guess I don't really have a #5. Jay and I did get groceries this morning (our poor fridge practically had tumbleweeds blowing through it) so we'll call that exciting and make it an even 5.

Can't wait to see what the next two weeks have in store!

-hbc

+7 Charisma

Good times were had by all as the honorable Mr. “Llama” Smith, esq. managed a brief overnight trek out to the wilds of Western Mass during his recent trip to Boston.

We saw a few of the sights of our corner of the valley, caught part of the Pats/Colts game on TV, enjoyed tooling around in the rental Jeep Liberty, made the required visit to Pizza Paradiso, and even had time for a quick breakfast at the Bookmill before sending back on the Mass Pike towards Boston.

To use parlance that we know Tony will appreciate: wOOt!

- jbc