I was sitting under a tree, reading Ovid today, and a couple of blighted yellow leaves fell onto my sweatshirt. I stopped reading and sat very still, waiting for more leaves to fall on me, perhaps even enough to cover me completely, to turn me into a tree like Daphne, or Philemon. That didn't happen. Two leaves was not enough. And even those two blew off, chased by the wind, and scuttled their claws across the concrete in what is perhaps the finest example of onomatopoeia I have found all day.

My students were being such angels that I left the room for a minute to do an errand. A minute, I swear! When I returned, this was on the blackboard, four feet long:

I had to laugh. they were so cute, trying not to crack up when I returned.

I told my boss yesterday that I would not be returning next year. I am moving to Korea. I am so exhausted that I accidentally put a black sock on my prosthesis on Monday, which didn't match the brown shoe it was wearing, but didn't bother to change it. I'm still wearing it today. Meh.