The Eagle & Child

I handed in my last major assignment on Wednesday. What a relief. Now I just have some reading to do for Monday and then a Hebrew final exam next Friday.  Lessons learned this semester: 1. I am unable to measure the quality of my own work. (Incidentally, I got my major Patristic Fathers paper back [...]

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I noticed today that next semester’s textbooks are starting to arrive at the college bookstore on campus.  I had considered buying them from Amazon–mostly because I wasn’t sure if the texts would be available before Christmas, but also because I could, in some cases, save up to 50% of the cover price by purchasing through [...]

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Another one I stumbled upon while browsing through Bill Bryson’s fabulous book, The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America: In the evening I sat in Hal and Lucia’s house, eating their food, drinking their wine, admiring their children and their house and furniture and possessions, their easy wealth and comfort, and felt a sap for ever [...]

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From the Globe and Mail: Wal-Mart Worker Killed in Bargain-Hunting Stampede ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AND COLLEEN LONG The Associated Press November 28, 2008 at 11:34 AM EST NEW YORK — A Wal-Mart worker died after being trampled by a throng of unruly shoppers as consumers, who had snapped their wallets shut since September, flocked to stores [...]

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