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My CLD class has only three students in it, including me, so when one is out sick, I get put on the spot more often. Sometimes being the only Anglophone is a pain, because although I have a pretty good vocabulary, I don't carry an entire thesaurus around in my head, so I can't always come up with the exactly right word instantly.

Anybody who has access to an academic library and nothing better to do for a while ought to go look up the Declassified Documents Resource. It's an online archive of government correspondence. (Nothing recent, of course; I think the most recent things in there are circa the Reagan administration. If I remember correctly, they wait 25 years before they de-classify things.) I was looking for ambassadorial letters, and found them, although nothing that was terribly helpful to my particular situation. Anyway, it's interesting stuff to poke around in.

I still have too much stuff to do, but today I feel more inclined to do it. Speaking of which, I have to remember to re-do the coffee hour posters for the third time so I can post them tomorrow. With any luck at all, the leech didn't hear that we're changing the day and the time, and I won't have to deal with him this week.

Oh yes, and now I desperately need ink for my printer. Printing things in green isn't working any more either.

zing

I can't shut my brain off. I got half of the part of my case study that's due on Thursday done, and the downloadable parallel texts downloaded, and now I've got something that's not quite a headache. Everything between my shoulderblades and my scalp is too tight, and I've been concentrating on one thing for so long that I know I've forgotten something I was supposed to remember to do tomorrow.

If I didn't have to go off and tutor at 11 tomorrow morning, I could afford to stay up as late as I needed to in order to wind down. Unfortunately that means I've got 40 minutes to slow down enough to sleep.

Coffee hour posters, that's what I forgot!