Winter Light,

Seems a good time for silence, really. I caught this photo yesterday of the wintry sun illuminating the shore, but metaphors? They won’t do it today. Silence. Hugging loved ones. Prayer in whatever form is…

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Rule-breaking What I Wore, and a Glimpse of Christmas . . .

Things are looking up . . . My throat is less sore, and my coldsores are beginning to shrink to scabbing stage (sounds awful, but really, it’s an improvement). I will finish all research papers…

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So close . . . .

 Having marked and handed back three out of four sections’ worth of research papers (22+ per section), I now have only the four sections’ worth of exams to mark and that last section of papers.…

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Professeur Qui?

 Where do you think one is more likely to find me today, after a solid week of marking, another one ahead of me, with students e-mailing me questions about what is likely to be on…

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Pathos, C’est Moi!

In a completely gratuitous demonstration of the pathetic fallacy, the weather appears to be mirroring my response to a weekend of marking papers. Gloomy! Heck, I’m even close to assuming that these ships sulk on…

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