2nd year over!

Hello, we will be writing as a team tonight. Cameron's comments are in carat brackets.

After staying up till 3 am several nights this quarter grading students' papers and tests, <<and working as hard as is humanly possible, almost to the point of breaking and throwing the bookshelves all over myself (sometimes in the tougher moments, I would curl into a ball, suck my thumb, and cry myself to sleep, knowing that I would have to wake a mere three hours later to work more)>>, Cameron has finished! One of his Profs, for whom he TA'd this quarter, took us out to lunch to celebrate. <<It's nice when one of the overlords throws the pions a bone. Being a grad student is tantamount to indentured servitude. Stephanie is one of the nice professors--she thinks it's ok if I sleep sometimes. >> This is why I was not interested in grad school!!



Cameron has also been bonding with his bike. <<no no, bonding is not the right word...what word describes when you take a wrench and hit something really hard with it? >> He ordered a long-coveted road bike in March, only to have it stolen a week and a half later <<by gypsies in the night--except it was actually at high noon in the middle of campus.>> So then we ordered the same bike, again. This time the tire popped--3 times in a period of 3 days. We think the Ebay merchant who sold us the bike should be publicly censured and put out of business for selling a bike with a defective tire rim.

That's all for now folks <>

Love, Care <<and Cam>>