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In the morning I finally finished all grading for Global class (until next week anyway). Now I just have 22 Law class exams and 27 Writing papers. I need to do 14 writing papers tomorrow and 6 exams.

Discussion for “El Cid” went fine. I don’t particularly like discussion classes in lower level classes because they don’t read and we end up talking about very basic reading comprehension points instead of having a production deep discussion. But I did feel like I helped them understand what they need for the paper like politics and social structure of medieval Spain. And we watched a bit more of the movie – which is just so silly. Most students read the first two parts of the book but did not make it for the third. Honestly, that was not a large book.

My Norman Conquest lecture went ok – there is a lot of information I had to cram in, though, from Anglo-Saxon government organization of shires and hundreds to the Conquest and William I, Henry I and the Anarchy. I’m basically setting up for next week and Henry II and origins of Common Law.

I got Coldplay’s new CD today. I don’t know what I think yet. I like it, obviously, but I don’t know if I love it. I listen to their first three albums all the time and I love pretty much all songs on them. The last one “Viva la Vida” was fine, but not as addictive. I don’t know yet where this will fit in.

Stupid marathon is wrecking my Sunday plans. The bridge will be closed until 3pm which prevents Bear coming over in the morning like he planned. We are working on alternative but really, city? You need to close both levels for half a day and prevent people from going anywhere?
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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.

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