June 29, 2006

• SUN

  Blue sky appeared today and the sun shone; a nice metaphor for what happens on Wednesday of a typical LIAW. (I guess the sun was shining all week but the point is, we could see it shining today because the clouds cleared; another nice metaphor for what happens on Wed. of a typical LIAW.) The students have all given up struggling and have abandoned themselves to despair, and so today things started falling into place for them. It's like a mother in the pains of labor who reaches that desperate moment when she feels all is futile and says, "gimme drugs" - that's just the moment when the baby comes. That's Wednesday in LIAW and they're starting to break on through to the other side. We're up through chapter 27 in Wheelock's now.

  
  

  I spent the evening chatting with the Weitz's - Caleb and Josh and I sat on the front veranda till well past dark talking and listening to weird Virginia night birds, talking about summer reading, and wondering when Condi Rice will be vice-president. I hope all my family back home are doing well and that Dad hasn't started the HD6 in an attempt to let Robert try airconditioning my house with it. See those pics of my kids in their grandparents' garden on my wife's blog? Aren't they great?

  
  

  G'night, dear family, and g'night, friends.

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