*waves sleepily at 11PM as she 'just' starts the work from home type work*

*flops*

 

Hows all the Kin?

*yawns, stretches, waves back as she crawls into work* 

 

Alive! Had a great visit to the zoo yesterday. The just opened a huge new Sanctuary Asia exhibit. The dragons were particularly active (Komodo dragons  ). We spent the whole day at the zoo, which also has a fishing cat kitten right now, and four young (though mostly full size) tigers, who are very playful. 

*Sits sleepily in front of her computer* I think I've caught a cold.

I am about to call it quits for the night and head to a Christmas Tea planning. 

That sounds fun Minuet! 

Lily, we have one of those lurking in our house. My son and I have been congested for over a week. I hope you feel better soon! 


 

Thanks, Lady! I'm trying to remember to take zinc to help it go away quicker. 

Hi, Arie!!!

 

Lady, my son has a year pass to the zoo for his birthday. He loves it.

 

Lily, no colds now!!! Rest.

We got some rain!!!!  Finally it's autumn.

Yay rain! We are expecting some moving in again tonight. I hope it brings another cold front. It was so beautiful in the low-70s last week, then today was 91. I want to break out my sweater collection! 

We were dumped on. My dogs were scared of the thunder.

Poor dogs. Mine don't particularly light thunder and lightning either, but these two refuse to sit in the bathroom with me during major storms (when we have tornado warnings). My last two were much better behaved about going in there with us and just sitting. 

I went to a Mediterranean restaurant. Friends took us there when we went to the Ren Faire a week or so ago. It's a really good place!

Sounds awesome! I love Mediterranean food. 

Work has tried to eat me the past couple of weeks. Whoever designed the curriculum I'm teaching from did not balance out the grading particularly well. This one unit has almost twice as much in it as the others (which would not be bad, except that I have over 180 students and they turned in four assignments in a week-and-a-half that all had short essays or were full-length essays). 

Though we went to a great little SCA event last weekend (and Coronation the weekend before!). Coronation was glorious. The stepping down was a modification of the end of Henry IV, and the reign is apparently going to be inspired by/themed around Shakespeare's Henry V. The Coronation included Shakespearean themed original music, along with the acting and a monologue on the part of the prince (now the King). It was glorious! The Church we held it in even had variable colored lighting in the sanctuary, which they made good use of for staging. 

Then this last weekend a local Canton held their first event ever. The site was pretty (up in the foothills of the Ozarks), and the weather was perfect (chilly but not overly cold). There were some classes, and it was very relaxed, and they had an ambitious feast. We had a good time. I am told their was fighting, but I never got that far after classes, and hanging out around the children's activities, which were run by some friends of mine. 

Oh, that sounds like so much fun! (Not the school part) A Baroney near us has invited us to their all day Yule celebration. It's Roman themed and I'm Roman. I'd like to go. I just have to see if the timing works.

Ooh, a Roman Yule sounds lovely! I enjoy Yule celebrations. One of the nearby baronies hosts one annually and it's always a fun time.