Well, here we are in the month of April. Easter went down well enough out at Sunset Acres where Trinity and I socialized with the owner's family. We had not only an Easter Egg hunt but also a Beer Hunt. I did better than I thought I would.
Trinity's spring break, a sunny, glorious spring break as she keeps reminding me (to which my response has been, "bite me" among other things) came to an end today. Thus we are both on terminal descent for the end of the semester.
In my American History 121 class we moved into the 1920s, later than I would have liked. I'm trying to summarize it but unfortunately I got hung up on talking about Communism. Hopefully I'll get through the rest of it on Wednesday.
Some would say I am a bad man because I do not spend time covering the social history of the period. Personally, neat as it is (you don't really buy it, do you? That I think it is neat. Because it really bores me) I feel like there are more important things to talk about like umm, oh, the rise of fascism in Europe and the rise of Japan in the Pacific. Given that we chucked two nukes at Japan toward the end of the war and some like to argue and debate that topic, I feel like that should be on priority.
Tomorrow I'll cover Slavery, getting away from the episodic type lectures to engage in a thematic lecture. This will be a nice break even if this lecture needs some revision. Following that, we'll see where we are at on the calendar.
The Fitness Front
0530 hour gym workout? Check. Got it in.
0930 hour swim workout? Check. Got it in too.
200 meters x 1
100 meters x 4
Total: 600 meters
Other Fronts
Not much to report. I have an exam to issue tonight so hopefully I can catch up on crits I owe to the Creative Writing students and one of my beta readers.
So it goes.
Respects,
Steven Francis Murphy
Author of The Limb Knitter and Tearing Down Tuesday
North Kansas City, Missouri
17 hours ago