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Bragging Rights and the Pursuit of Happiness

Monday I had the most glorious weekend. Well, glorious Saturday, anyway. Friday night Will and Arien took my Littles, plus 3 of Arien’s younger sisters, camping. And David came home for the weekend. You don’t realize how much young children demand out of you until you get a chance to miss them (I never did get to that point – just enjoyed their absence!). Friday night David and I watched The Greatest Showman. I had just downloaded it a week earlier when Arien was over and didn’t mind seeing it again. It’s a good movie. There are several songs I want to buy (next month’s budget!). I was surprised when David told me the next day that he had gone ahead and downloaded the musical’s title track. Apparently, he liked it. Actually, he said some of the girls in the dishroom at camp have been singing the songs in the kitchen all summer long, so he was already familiar with some of them! Saturday, I met my friend Jenny in Altoona. It has been several years since we’ve spent time toge

Drippy Nosed Convert

I have caught a bad summer cold.   I don’t know what it is, but getting sick in the summertime seems especially insulting.   I have not felt this bad since I was sick in Nov/Dec 2016.   But, I don’t think I’m getting any worse, either, so I am hopeful that in a day or two I’ll feel more human.   Ellie had a slight cold last week – or, as she called it, “a bad case of the sneezes” and I caught it – only to a greater degree. I am fully into my last class now.   It’s a class on Shakespeare.   You know – I’m just not a big fan.   Plus, I am so mentally done with school, so that makes it harder.   I am   spending an awful lot of time on the website “No Fear Shakespeare.”   That does help, at least! I am motivated to keep my grades up in this class, though, because this professor says on the syllabus that if we have a 93% average by the end of the term, we will not have to take the final.   I mentioned that to Will and he said that’s very common in college classes, but this is the fir