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| WhewThis grad school stuff is a little harder than it looks. I survived the semester, wrote lots of papers, read lots of books, made tea at a Japanese festival, and did not go totally insane. all is well. Hope to post more soon. | | |
| Spring Break......but not for busy little grad students. Weather was beautiful today but most of my time was spent reading. Prepping the garden for planting in about 2 or 3 weeks. Writing a syllabus and a foreign relations paper. I sometimes wonder why I did this, but then I have to unclog a pipe and remember that I would rather be reading and writing than unclogging drains.
Friday I will take a break and celebrate the arrival of spring with a BBQ for some of the department.
Hope those thatread this are well.
Pin, Mel, I wish I was back there so we could do some Hanami together. I miss drinking under the blossoms. | | |
| and PrivateersThis weeks Military thought class has me reading N.A.M Roger. He wrote two large and long volumes on the history of the British Navy. Good stuff. For example, between 1750 and 1757 the British Navy took in 110,049 tuns of beer (and condemned as unfit .9% of that amount). A tun of beer is 954 liters. Conclusion, Navy life may have been hard, but at least they gave you loads of beer. | | |
| PiratesWell, tonight I got to help lead my foreign policy class. Two other students and I chose to jump in fast and get the discussion leader day done quick. we had to run the entire three hour class and the topic was the Barbary Pirates and the wars we had with them. kind of cool stuff if you like Pirates, or Marines, or blowing stuff up. | | |
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