I have pages and pages to read for my 8:30 Contracts class tomorrow. But just now I am watching our cat sleep luxuriously on the dining room table, our short-legged dog fervently and persistently testing all vantage points around her to see if now can I reach? Here? Can I reach here? How about here? …
Cathedrals
Watching the Ken Burns national parks doc with half an eye. It’s all about Yosemite at the moment, a place where I spent one heartening summer, teaching children how to keep brown bears out of their packs and flush grody camp toilets with your feet.John Muir is such an interesting man, someone about whom I…
Manslaughtering Little Boys
Reading a case in crim about a little boy who was beaten by two adults and then died after they refused to take him to the hospital until it was too late. The case became a contest of medical experts, each defendant trying to prove that the other’s beating was the cause of the death. …
I Liked This Essay
http://happydays.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/17/the-referendum/(Found the link at another blogger’s place.)
Smack Down
Today I made a comment in class that was refuted by a gentleman who declared that "some folks" don’t understand what it’s like in "the real world," but in his "extensive experience" in the working world, blah blah Gill you’re an idiot.I was like – Oh No He Dih-unt. I wear the Crown for Queen…