It’s a quarter to 11, the morning pot of coffee has yet to be consumed (because it didn’t come into being until about 10:30), the morning walk has not been walked, I have done NOTHING, in 45 minutes Cassie and I are heading for La Maya’s house, and I am not even dressed. Okay, okay…I have an excuse for loafing: I read the magazine-writing students’ papers till 2:00 this morning.
But that was only because I spent the several usable hours of yesterday afternoon loafing.
Today I’ve got to backwash the pool (which in theory I could do right now…), read papers for the other course, shovel off the desk, finish the bookkeeping, figure out what happened to the tickets to the Bach Festival, and really…I should clean house.
The immediate cause for all this celebratory loafing is that I finally finished editing the esteemed Chinese graduate student’s dissertation. That was an experience! It actually turned out to be more difficult than I expected because, paradoxically, her English is better than many Chinese scholars’. As a result, the techno-statistico-psychobabble she was emitting by way of earning a Ph.D. from one of the most prestigious universities in Asia was deceptively understandable. Because I rarely had much trouble catching what she was trying to say, at irregular intervals various nonidiomatic turns of phrase would slip past me. Then when I went back for a second read, my jaw kept dropping.
OMG! Five biplanes just flew over in formation, wingtip to wingtip, their old reciprocating engines thundering away! What a hoot!!!!!
So I ended up foisting the edits onto my sidekick Tina to review, even though I’m taking graduate-student pay from the client and can’t afford to pay Tina a fair rate to read the stuff. She found still more stuff that I’d missed. So that took another couple of days and required me to go through the whole thing yet again, reading behind her. Finally shipped the thing off yesterday, feeling the effects of brain-fry.
There they go again. They must be flying over a Veteran’s Day parade.
Welp, in my opinion, watching guys fly around in old Sopwith Camels is a lot more fun than blogging. And so, away…
HAPPY VETERAN’S DAY!
My favorite Snoopy strips are when Snoopy is in his bi-plane taking on the Red baron…To see 5 at once ….in formation…how cool is that!!!
Ah, beloved Snoopy.
RIP, Mr. Schulz. A gift to humanity, much missed.
Happy late veterans day. Looks like you had a really nice long weekend. Sometimes it’s nice to just be able to put all the “should do”s away and do what feels right, including loafing!