Protected: How to close a university

We had a bonus meetup at Trattorie this morning because otakuu was in town and was keen to get together with a few of the local bookcrossers. Not a bad turnout considering the short notice (the whole thing was planned via the Yahoo group last week) – as well as the usual breakfasters (me, lytteltonwitch,…

…tend to gang agley due to the lure of a lazy weekend, or they do in my life, anyway. I had all these good intentions of spending the weekend working on my linguistics essay, preparing Wednesday’s ESOL lesson so I don’t have to do it at the last minute, testing out my new secret super-powers…

San Antonio, Texas Yep, another really late night. After a long reasonably boring day of driving (though there were a few interesting parts along the way), we hit the town tonight… well, sort of 🙂 We actually went for a walk along the riverfront among all the bars and restaurants, and had a look at…

It being a Friday night, and neither of us feeling much like cooking dinner, we were lazy tonight and rang for a pizza. When the delivery guy arrived, he took the pizza box out of his thermal bag thingy, went to hand it to me, and then paused with a puzzled look on his face….

The new university year starts today, so it’s a perfect time to release books around the campus, while the students are still excited and enthusiastic and receptive to new ideas. I’m planning on trying to release at least one book a day on campus this week, in the hopes of catching a few new members…

We’re down in Alexandra, and feeling much better after a good night’s sleep and a relaxing day. Thanks everyone for your kind thoughts and wishes – it really does help enormously to know that people are thinking of you. I saw several flags flying at half mast around town today, and it was strangely affecting….