I believe it’s finally winter, perhaps for the first time since last year. I had to walk across campus this morning and a short distance around lunch time, and I was glad I had my heavy coat and hat and gloves.

Classes start Tuesday. The three-day weekend will be nice, but things are going to get wild come next week. Luckily we have a good staff to handle the bulk of it.

Anybody have any exciting plans for the weekend? Denny’s cousin’s family is coming to town, so I think we’re getting together with them Saturday night. I was going to make lamb eggrolls (an attempt to duplicate some really good ones we had in a restaurant once), but that was before I found out about the Saturday night gathering, and I’m trying to have only one junky meal a week.

There’s a guy in my seminar who keeps moving his head in a weird way. I can’t tell if it’s just a personal quirk or if he has some kind of neurological disorder. I wonder if I do something like that that makes people wonder if I have a neurological disorder.

*twitch*

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