All three of the cats threw up in the house in the same week, recently, at different times, which is funny because… wait, it’s not funny. I haven’t gotten a haircut since August. By November it was relatively easy to say that it was because money was tight since John was unemployed. Now I’m forced [...]
So! [claps hands] Where were we? After Friday’s debacle, I’m pretty relieved to be on Spring Break right now. Spring Break as a grad student is so very, very different from Spring Break as an undergrad. To wit: I’m on Spring Break Day Two and there’s nary a beach in sight. I’m in Florida, sure, [...]
During my classes today, we discussed the Cold War and how the fear that Communism would spread to the US led to an anti-Communist movement in the 1940s and 1950s. I wanted to get my students thinking about loyalty and disloyalty, so I told them that during World War Two, one of the things the [...]