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March 17, 2005
Unexpected Stuff
--Apparently there was a Wild Kingdom party in our neighborhood this morning. Something tripped our security light out on the carport when I came out with Sollie around 5:30. And there was a raccoon & something fighting in one of the neighbor's trees as well. It was too dark to see anything but silhouettes, but I'm sure at least one was a racoon because of the sounds it was making. We had a couple of pet racoons when I was a kid, and I'd recognize that krrrrr-krrrrr trilling anywhere. I even learned to mimic it reasonably well, which was an enormous help when I took Spanish in undergrad. (Go ahead. Laugh. It was.)
--I completely forgot it's St. Paddy's Day. I have some claim to the day, seeing as how my great-great granny Winnie came over from the Old Country. (Though given all the freckled redheads in both sides of my family, I suspect she's not the only Irish ancestor I have) I spent a few days in Dublin once, a more dreary & depressing city I've never seen. Took a bus tour of the city, and it was all "And here you'll be seeing the bullet holes from the uprising in '03, when we shot up the bloody British barstards fer looking at us the wrong way doncha know." Interesting though to hear the other side, because I was studying British politics of the Victorian/Edwardian era at Oxford at the time. (The coolest part of the trip however, was seeing the Book of Kells.)
--I found out just before I left this morning that my instructor was ill so we won't be having class today. I hated to hear it because he's a nice guy and a good teacher but.....HOORAY! Spring break's starting a day early! And even better, I found out before I drove all the way to Bentonville!
Some surprises are good.
Posted by Rita at March 17, 2005 07:39 AM