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“Or how much curious and loving attention was expended by the first man who looked hard enough at the insides of trees, the entrails of cats, the hind ends of horses and the juice of pine tree to realize he could turn them all into the first fiddle. No doubt his wife urged him to get up and do something useful. I am sure that he was a stalwart enough lover of things to pay no attention at all to her nagging; but how wonderful it would have been if he had known what we know now about his dawdling. He could have silenced her with the greatest riposte of all time: Don’t bother me; I am creating the possibility of the Bach unaccompanied sonatas” (Robert Farrar Capon, The Supper of the Lamb, p. 19 HT to Doug Wilson

April 30, 2004

Small reasons to rejoice!

Submitted final grades today. Semester over! Woohoo!

Registered for a two week seminar in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, the celtic capital of Canada! Woohoo!

Given my salary letter for the next year today! Woohoo!

Wife and daughter gone to a conference. House to myself for two days! Woohoo!

Going fishing tomorrow for the first time this year! Woohoo!

Received my acceptance letter into the Ph.D. program at Carleton University in Ottawa! Woohoo!

Atkins dream Sunday. Steak at a friend’s for lunch and Prime Rib at a senior dinner. Woohoo!

Four hours of Star Trek on Spike TV tonight! Woohoo!

Jim has become a Calvinist again! Woohoo! (JN)

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