Wednesday, October 19, 2011

This morning I had to finish working on my lecture for the afternoon because of the opera last night. I had time but I generally don’t like cutting it that close. I had the majority done last night, I just had to add Stein to it and do the outlines and Powerpoint. But it went fine and so did the lecture. The student’s favorite part was, of course, the Brundage Medieval Sex chart (It is a great way to show the prevalence of canon law in regular life). Students always perk up at that – to see all the medieval church sex rules. Is it Monday? One guy really got bewildered about not being allowed to be naked during sex. Another guy commented that maybe having socks on would count then. It got a laugh. I did lectures on Christianity and Canon Law today which right until this moment as I’m typing I did not realize that today was all about the Church. Where is my brain today. It is late and raining, I think I just need to sleep.

I got a flu shot today. My arm gets a bit numb as a side effect for a while but it will go away by tomorrow. The nursing students were practicing on us basically but they did a great job. They measured our temperature first, which I never had to do before a flu shot before. I can’t afford to get sick so a flu shot for me.

I find the new Coldplay video to “Paradise” hysterical with the elephant costume, which so distracts me from very serious lyrics. iTunes lets you play a full song from a new album every day as a preview. I can’t wait for new Coldplay songs. Today’s song was “Us Against the World” and I quite like it.

Galina, Mama’s friend, and Olya, her daughter, from Miami, came to stay tonight since they had to be in New York for two days. We had a fun dinner/tea and scones conversation and I showed them pictures of Galya – they were here when I was making a blanket and got invested in the baby story. I wish they lived closer to us.