Shamu gets a Friend

I've spent most of the day, too much of the day, working with students by means of email. Yesterday I gave them five articles to read, find the main point, and then summarize.

They have until Friday to send me the main points for each article and till Sunday morning to send a copy of the summary draft from each one. So this morning my inbox was filling with students sending me the main points and even one student sending me the five summaries. So-o-o-o-o-o-o, I had too politely explain that critical thinking and "racing to the finish" are slightly different.

Needless to say, many other things that I thought I would have time for today were neglected.

Then after Mr. Fun arrived home, I made the dinner salad (a Ceasar), while he sautéed a medley of veggies. Dinner was delicious.

Then I still had school work to complete -- not mandatory -- but stuff I want to get completed. But Mr. Fun was inviting me to join him in the spa and if my answer to his invite was "yes," he'd heat the water.

So we've just come in from a lovely hour-plus sitting, soaking, and soothing in the hot bubbly water . . . (no wonder I like champagne.)

After a long lovely hour, we heard the heater click on again and I said, "Okay, when the heating is done, we need to turn this off and get back into the house before it is really late." Sheeesh, we both have to get up and get to work in the morning.

So the heater finished, he stepped out and then down the steps to the pool equipment to shut it off, and then back into the warm water to sit with me in the quiet -- listening to the distant trains and occasionally a jet high above us leaving California from either Ontario International Airport or Los Angeles, which started a new conversation when he said, "Would you like to fly away with me?" The answer to that is predictable.

So the photo today (not very good), hopefully, is displaying that Mr. Fun brought home a companion for Shamu, the inflated whale that has been floating in our pool for the past 14 months. The companion is quite wrinkled, but the heat of the sun in the next few days will melt those wrinkles into smooth skin (I wish it worked that way for humans).

We decided to get this new whale (a female we've decided) a bow or something that reveals her femininity. Oh my gosh, we'll have a courtship, a romance, happening in our backyard pool. How exciting.

So there it is, this Wednesday with all it's boring details.

Thanks for reading this far. You are amazing.
Good night from Southern California.
Rosie (& Mr. Fun), aka Carol