Tangelos!  

I love tangelos.  Second to persimmons they may be the perfect fruit (I also have some fond memories of mangosteens, the Jewish mangoes of SE Asia).  I was starting to feel like the only fruit I was buying was shipped here from California, not so local, not so sustainable.  So I checked out the local grape, the muscadine, that is coming into season here.  Strangest grape ever.  No wonder its used to make an unloved wine.  Thick, sour skin.  A squishy middle that kind of ejects itself out on your initial bite.  And then SO many big bitter seeds.  Its like a multi-step process to eat and, well, the ratio of work to happy fruit-ness is maybe one-to-one.

Hm.  Tangelos are superior.  Efficient.

I did my first Western Civ lecture today.  8 am.  The Neolithic Revolution.  Let me tell you those kids were dazzled.  I told them their first assignment was to work the date in which the wheel and/or plow was developed into a conversation at a party this weekend.  A couple diligently wrote that down so we'll see.  Spreading the knowledge.  It's not a job.  It's a calling.

Oh!  I also was asked today by one of the PhD students here to be on her dissertation committee!  I have my very own duckling already.  I'm so pleased.

Totally unrelated, tomorrow I may fling my printer off the roof of Allen Hall.

Oooh and maybe the muscadine grapes too since I'll, y'know, already be up there.  And, shoot, maybe this crappy remote here too.  I should make a list. 

And what the crap is going on with the Olympic coverage?  Why are they showing the gymnastics medalists showcase thingy?  Aren't there still actual events going on?  Oh.  Track and Field is up next.  Sweet.  Be honest, did you know that there was a country called St. Kitts and Nevis?

runrunrunrunrunrunrun.  Damn, the Jamaicans run fast.