Ed! Thanks for the book! I'm going to take it to school with me tomorrow to read while I give exams :)

Hi to all my students and others at SHU who found my blog!

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night :-)
Anastasia

Cyril and I know much of the same 80s music. He typically knows more artists than me, I just know the songs. Well, a song came on the radio while we were in the car, I start singing along, I couldn't tell you who sings it, but I knew all the words. He was like: I have never heard this before in my life. When we get home, I looked it up on iTunes, " ( Read more... )

Guess what??? Cyril and I have finally been to a ren faire! :) The Greater Pittsburgh Renaissance Fest. It was a lot of fun :) We saw a joust, and some comic duelest, and some other shows. Cyril tried unsuccessfully to throw knives at a wall. I wasn't much better with the midevil darts. Of course a lot of people were in costume. The funny thing to ( Read more... )

My best friend from Tulane is safe! He emailed another friend of ours and asked that friend to email me and let me know, as he couldn't remember my non-Tulane email addy. Yay!!! I knew there was a good chance he had left, and I am very happy to know for sure ( Read more... )

I hope everyone will forgive me if I talk about something happy for a little while.

We got a dishwaher! Saturday a week ago, Cyril and I went on a bunch of errands and one of them was to Best Buy where we got one of these! Isn't it cute? It's sitting on top of one of the sinks in the kitchen. We have a double sink, and normally I would use one of ( Read more... )

President Bush is cutting his vacation short to return to Washington and monitor relief efforts for the hurricane.

Is that supposed to make me feel better?

I got a mini-fridge for my office. One of the kind that has the tiny freezer in one corner. I filled the ice cube try yesterday and this morning found out that half the cubes had frozen. It was the strangest thing, some were frozen, some were all water. I used the frozen cubes, refilled the tray, and turned the fridge temp down. Hopefully tomorrow ( Read more... )

We had the Fall Faculty Workshop on campus today. It began with a prayer (SHU is a Catholic uni), and our new chaplin decided to light incence before starting the prayer. Very smokey incence. About 5 minutes into it, the fire alarm went off. Everybody started laughing, we couldn't help it. Someone carried the smoking bowl out of the auditorium, and ( Read more... )

I survived new faculty orientation. Everyone by now has probably figured out that I'm terrible with names... which they might as well have known sooner or later :) I'm supposed to get my office computer tomorrow. They had to tear down a wall to make my office, it was two tiny rooms and now it's one office. Wee ( Read more... )