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ricardienneSo, I saw a squirrel burying an acorn this afternoon! He (fine: excoriate me for my inherent sexism in assuming that this squirrel was male!) was so cute! Of course, I knew that squirrels buried acorns come autumn, but I had never seen one in the act before.
All of the resident rodents life was rather busy. Yes, the chippies and the squirrels are always racing around, but today they were downright hyperactive! Possibly because now they really need to hurry and hoard nuts, or because they were trying to stay warm in spite of the cold. (I couldn't see my breath, but I'd swear that I saw other peoples' -- uness it was just smoke.)
Latin Table was great this morning. I understood almost everything that he was saying (though I know he makes an effort to say things that we can understand) and I even managed a couple sentences, in one of which I actually managed to remember to use the accusative. And next week we start the subjunctive! I can't wait!
There was a lecture at lunch today about extradition in 18th century France. It was pretty interesting. Given that my previous knowledge of "prisionniers d'état" was limited to le pauvre Doctor Manette of A Tale of Two Cities, I learned quite a bit. Apparently it cost the government something like 1,912 livres to kidnap such a man. Take the exchange rate and inflation into account, that's probably about as much as we spend to abduct Canadians and send them to Syria to be tortured. The professor also drew some good observations about the role of the police and inchoate notions of the rights of a citizen during the period. Almost makes up for missing the Medieval Studies lectures at ASU this year.
All of the resident rodents life was rather busy. Yes, the chippies and the squirrels are always racing around, but today they were downright hyperactive! Possibly because now they really need to hurry and hoard nuts, or because they were trying to stay warm in spite of the cold. (I couldn't see my breath, but I'd swear that I saw other peoples' -- uness it was just smoke.)
Latin Table was great this morning. I understood almost everything that he was saying (though I know he makes an effort to say things that we can understand) and I even managed a couple sentences, in one of which I actually managed to remember to use the accusative. And next week we start the subjunctive! I can't wait!
There was a lecture at lunch today about extradition in 18th century France. It was pretty interesting. Given that my previous knowledge of "prisionniers d'état" was limited to le pauvre Doctor Manette of A Tale of Two Cities, I learned quite a bit. Apparently it cost the government something like 1,912 livres to kidnap such a man. Take the exchange rate and inflation into account, that's probably about as much as we spend to abduct Canadians and send them to Syria to be tortured. The professor also drew some good observations about the role of the police and inchoate notions of the rights of a citizen during the period. Almost makes up for missing the Medieval Studies lectures at ASU this year.
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Date: 2005-10-21 12:44 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-10-21 02:15 am (UTC)It's so freaking cool when squirrels bury things. I saw one the other day, too. The girl I was walking with thought it was amusing that I had to watch it until it disappeared. >_>;;
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Date: 2005-10-21 08:48 pm (UTC)Back when I was in school, there was a squirrel that built it's nest on the window ledge of my Biology classroom window.
He spent a large part of his time tidying up his little home and relining his nest with items he foraged. Needless to say that noone who sat near the window was paying any attention to the professor.