So my absence here can be traced to one cause and one cause only: in January, I had the cable company come to take the analog box off of my cable for the new "digital transition" and all, and when the box went away, I got like 30 more channels. So I have been watching TV for the past five months. Just so you know.
I've also had an incredible number of migraine headaches. Go figure.
Today I was flipping channels and saw Prague. Which of course meant I had to stop and watch. The movie was xXx, staring the city of Prague and Vin Diesel. And I watched it all. You know the building the Americans take over as their little weapons armory? Yeah. That's my favorite building in Prague, except that instead of a weapons armory inside, there's a little bar where Amilynne kindly got coffee so I could sit and soak the building in. So of course the movie prompted a phone call to Amilynne, which led to her getting out her travel journal from last summer and basically reading the whole thing, punctuated with exclamations from both of us and little details added from my journal. So I have just relived the trek from Prague to Rome. I can't even begin to express how I wish it were summer and I had a ticket for Europe!
It's not summer. I have a stack of work to grade that will only grow this week, so I ought to get to it. And maybe do some lesson planning too, and some prep work on final exams and all. And since the season for good television is waning, maybe I'll write more here too in the coming days.
