September 7
Labor day. Started rough but got better. Rewatched Zodiac and almost rented an RV.
World: 27,255,750 - 891,285
Sweden: 85,558 - 5,837 dead
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September 8
Worked late and did the History talk for HUMA 6300. Talked to David.
World: 27,477,869 - 896,173
Sweden: 85,707 - 5,838 dead
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September 9
Day off - no boat ride but we took the cats to the vet and learned that Sigmund has kidney issues. Lunch in the park in Arlington, short stop at Michaels, got the cats back and then watched three episodes of Young Wallander. Talked to Beth about the trip and I think we are settled.
World: 27,756,335 - 902,141
Sweden: 85,880 - 5,842 dead
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September 10
Day started with meeting w Shilyh, Pam, J and A. Went better than I feared. Then training from 22KILL and smore meetings. Admin meeting went okay. Jonas called (yay) and I got some done. Looks like the software I got will be great to edit videos - and not too terribly difficult to learn (We'll see).
World: 28,064,801 - 908,257
Sweden: 86,194 - 5,843 dead
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September 11
19 years since 9/11. Premiere Rush works just fine when I figure it out. Adobe messing with me a bit, but mostly fine. Michele gave me an idea for how to grade the blog - just add to the total - so first x out of 16, then x+x out of 32, etc. Nils called to ask about something I had not done, but I got it over to him before the end of the day, so that was okay ... I guess. Some seem to have maybe forgotten they cannot use attendance as part of the grade for asynchronous students, hmmm. Sarah Millican is awesome.
World: 28,331,121 - 913,015
Sweden: 86,505 - 5,846 dead
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September 12
What do I say ... regular run-ins are exhausting. We had breakfast at the park and before dinner we went and got a new rokuplayer that does cbs all access. Watched three first episodes of NCIS, sorta by mistake.
World: 28,661,777 - 919,094
Sweden: 86,505 - 5,846 dead
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September 13
Better day. Talked to Rachel and almost finished book 9 (next week we will finish). Breakfast and then work for a bit and then out and picked up my prescription and then had lunch at schlotzky's on our way to elmonterv where we looked at rvs and got some ideas and then picked up the mail in arlington and then came home and did laundry and then we got pizza and watched two episodes of Star Trek Discovery and I almost cried at the sense of hope, of perseverance, of duty.
Jim had sent me a link to a review of the new Terence Malik movie - a hidden life - based on a quote from George Eliot about the honor of the hidden life, the life of Dorothea.
Eliot evokes the infinite ways that ongoing acts of moral courage throughout history are inevitably forgotten: “…[T]he growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
Of course no one in star trek lives a hidden life, but it gives comfort to think that dreams matter, that serving in some small capacity is possible and relevant.
World: 28,902,170 - 922,735
Sweden: 86,505 - 5,846 dead
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