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Hooray, it’s a brand new year!

2006 was mostly spent recovering from Hurricane Katrina.  I still harbor a great deal of anger about the actual event and the response to it by various members of society; however, I also am still very conscious of how utterly lucky I am to have everything I have [...]

Year after year, a friend or family member asks me what I want for gifts and I am just about always at a loss to reply. This year I can actually get or make people something decent, too, so I suppose it’s okay if I put a few things I need or want up [...]

“The stars are forth, the moon above the tops

Of the snow-shining mountains. –Beautiful!

I linger yet with Nature, for the night

Hath been to me a more familiar face

Than that of man; and in her starry shade

Of dim and solitary loveliness,

I learn’d the language of another world.”  —– Byron

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I mean, he never left, or course, but it’s been a while since I really wanted to get one of his albums when it came out.   I thought maybe I had “grown out” of him or something.  Fortunately, I was wrong — he can still make me laugh.

Now that my evenings are mostly taken up with study (graduate professors are apparently reluctant to have classes before 3pm) all sorts of things happen in the evening.  Where previously we would rent movies or just sit around staring at each other, now people James (http://www NULL.ambardia NULL.com) works with invite us to dinner.  [...]