Today--crazy busy. Beads in the jail which is suddenly enormously popular. One of my former student's parents making jewelry with me. This is happening more than I thought it would. It makes for a nice connection, once we figure out how we know each other. It explains a little bit to me about what my students had to face at times.

A quick lunch, a trip to the store for snacks for the girls, and then beads with the girls at the library which also is suddenly enormously popular. I can't complain. This is my teaching fix.

No wise words today, no Hafiz poetry. Went to Borders last night and found a couple of summer reads--then looked them up in the library--as usual, my taste in fiction is off-kilter with small town Indiana. *Sigh.* Time for an interlibrary loan. Got the credit card bill in the mail and realized that we are goofing around a wee bit more than we should (or perhaps a lot more). Time to curb those dinners at the Caribbean restaurant. Gray day, rain, and humid. Off to make an early supper.