une visite de clare

It's true! It's true!

Prancy McFrancerton will be here in two months -- hoorah! Well, not exactly here... will meet her in County Clare (Ireland), for obvious reasons :)

and then we will return to C-town. One can only hope that we'll have as much fun here as when this picture was taken right before LeAnn Rimes sang Me and Bobby McGee! (cropped self out in manner of Oma since look like absolute COW. moooooooo.)

Two packages arrived yesterday in honor of the Last Day of Quantitative Statistics lectures! One from (aforementioned and very cute) Oma :) --- ettoufee mix, cornbread mix, splenda (hoorah!). and one from Cousine LLLL -- which included brill fairtrade coffee from www.larrysbeans.com. In past 24 hours have had, hmmmmmm, maybe 10 cups of coffee?

Good news is lecture is finito. Bad news is must write 2000 more words of meaningless interpretation of 117 peoples' questionnaire responses in number form. Good news is have until next Friday. Bad news is regular classes begin next week. Good news is still have time on Christmas rail passes. Bad news is am not lady of leisure and limitless financial stability who can toodle around on trains with no thought of time or responsibility until the passes expire at the end of Feb.

More good news (ewww - am starting to make self feel a bit seasick with this emotional rollercoaster): have now marked one movie off list of movies which (certain) people mock me for not having seen before. The Godfather. Hiroko and Katharine and I were all newbies and were quite please to have BBC 3 expand our horizons. got quite a lot of knitting done!

Next week is Godfather II. maybe...