4/12: What I Accomplished Today

Sorry for the gap; it was feeling obligatory, so I took some time off.

Speaking of Obligatory: New Rule: If all you've got is airport security, children's birthday parties, and some vague, amorphous Chelsea Clinton/Monica Lewinsky insult tied to a picture of Obama feeding livestock, don't bother with the segment. It's a shame, because after that, Maher made some interesting observations on similarities between polygamous cults and the Catholic church (albeit marred, yet again, by his inability to distinguish between "homosexual" and "pedophile"; 20 years ago, we'd all read enough to know that most pedophiles were heterosexuals whom the child trusted for some reason, and adding "Catholic priest" to the category confirms that definition rather than changes it), but those observations weren't received in a "Hmm, let me ponder that" way as they often are because what had gone before had been...just...well...dumb. Not worthy of his time or ours. (I suspect I've conflated two episodes there, but the point remains valid.)

I've taught and graded a great many classes. We've actually given and scored the College Readiness Assessment that I attended a number of meetings planning; it seems to have gone well. I've been to quite a few Literary Society and book group meetings and read several other books; I've also been working on a class I'm teaching next fall in which we'll approach Ulysses through The Odyssey, so that's been alternately interesting and deadly boring, depending on my mood. In World of Warcraft, I've gotten all nine characters to level 50; I have to admit that I'm a little smug about this (and yes, I also know that, on the Warcraft scheme, that really isn't any big whoop, and on the non-Warcraft scheme, that's rather an embarrassment). I also have four guild tabs and am working on improving armor and weaponry while leveling the blacksmith.

Now that new television programming is filtering back to the airwaves, we can categorically announce the winner of the writers' strike: NetFlix.

Co-Vivant wants to move to Blue Diamond while keeping this house as a rental. We can do one of those things, but not both. If she finds a way, I'd love to hear it, and I'm not saying I'm not open to doing one or the other of those things, but both--I'm trying to think of a "if wishes were horses" joke to go here, but I just don't have it in me right now.