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DIARY

- YESTERDAY - Actually, a pretty good day (though I say it as if surprised.) Busy. I managed to fire off a cover letter as application for a TA position opening up next year. I left work early to clear up some registration trouble I'd discovered over the weekend. I'd been warned of a $150 fee, but the rumor must have been embellished, because I was fined == zero ==. I had a few free minutes, so I stopped by the writing center to let Megan know I'd listed her as a reference and to say "hi." At six I had a meeting first with Helen (workshop, last semester) and then with David (workshop, this semester), and both were very productive. And... there was time to grab a coffee before workshop. Our workshop was energized and vigorous today... I'll be going up next week. I stopped at Spain for some chicken and whiskey and got home by midnight.

- WEATHER - All storms as predicted yesterday. South Dakota gets snow, not rain. Very warm in the southeast and southwest. The northeast: AN OMEGA BLOCK! (This is when the jet stream is shaped like an omega with a high pressure center occluding fronts moving in from other directions. Rain and cold is trapped on the outside of the omega, while the interior (in this case Michigan and southern Ontario) is filled with cloudless blue skies and gentle downward moving air.

- TIGERS - Yesterday: 10-2. Cleveland. What happened? Shelton got another homer, setting a new AL record. But that's all. As the Freep says: "The last time the Tigers stood 7-6 after 13 games -- in 1996 -- the team embarked on a three-city trip that included stops in Seattle and Anaheim. The Tigers will do the same now. A decade ago, they went 1-7. They never again found the good side of .500 and finished 53-109." It's been about twice that long, incidentally, since they played a winning season.

- APRIL - Is the month of woodworking.
- TODAY - Is Cheatday.
- HAPPY BIRTHDAY - Clarence Daroow, Leopold Stokowski, Albert Einstein, and Conan O'Brien.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK #1
"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
- Albert Einstein

QUOTE OF THE WEEK #2
“If life gives you lemons, make some kind of fruity juice.”
- Conan O'Brien

QUESTION OF THE DAY
First, list all the languages you know *well*: let's say well enough to READ books and street signs without help, and literature with help from a good dictionary, and to SPEAK without help or significant difficulty.
Second, list and rank seven more languages you'd like to know.

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