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1) Yes, I was purple this afternoon.

2) No, it is not a secondary mutation, a new disease, or mind-control.

3) Interior decorating is hazardous to your health. Especially when teeks enchanted with their offspring's potential reactions upset the supplies and neglect to catch the paint along with the can.

You have to leave the boathouse at some point, Dayspring.

I have to check in on a friend of mine. I hope to be back by Monday at the latest, but this may take longer than I think. Please keep up with your readings and consider using this time to polish your due assignments. I will take the extra day into account when grading.

Students,

I am having issues with my throat. Rather than rasp my way through lessons for the day, I get another day to recuperate and you get to sleep in. My lecture notes will be online; use them to complete the day's readings and assignments as per the syllabus.

Bonne nuit, and I will see you all Tuesday.

I'm going to be off-schedule this week. Dayspring has contracted some strain of stomach flu. Germs don't take quite as well to a host that runs hotter than the human norm on a regular basis, so I've been elected to stand as nurse until he stops trying to vomit up his toenails (or until the bug adapts to my system and we have a repeat of the 1918 epidemic). One way or the other, this will only last two or three days.

This will not affect class times, but do not expect to see much of me otherwise.

Classes start tomorrow, so do not forget to set your alarms. I am not above depositing half-asleep students in snowbanks.

The meat grinder certainly performs as advertised.

There is a venison and rabbit tourtière in the kitchen. Also the venison salami started yesterday is ready. There are two batches of venison sausage in the fridge; I recommend avoiding the smaller batch if you are not fond of spicy food.

And stew, because it seemed like a good idea at the time.

Feel free to carry it off as you need.

See subject heading.

No one crashed. No one died.

A successful trip, all in all.

I'll be in Canada from Wednesday morning until Saturday evening and I'll be taking Shiro with me ~~as a sanity buffer~~ because he will wither and die without my guiding presence to sustain him. Whatever your own plans, do try to enjoy yourselves and come back in one piece.

Your textbooks arrived today. Feel free to pick them up any time between now and the start of the next term.

Also, the next person to appear uninvited in my room will be leaving through the window.* I may not bother to open it first.

*Unless you are a devastatingly attractive man, late twenties or older, with abdominals that score at least a four on the Mohs scale, in which case, I may be willing to negotiate.

I will be in the woods northwest of the quarry from 12:30 until 2:00pm practicing agility at very high speeds. Unless it is an emergency matter, please keep your distance until I am done -- I do not wish to explain to Summers or Xavier how I happened to run over any of the students or staff.

If you hear insane laughter from my room, do not be alarmed. It is merely something akin to joy. I have every confidence that this will turn into a horrible train wreck, but I will still try to enjoy the moment.

For those of you who will be taking my literature course in the coming semester:

We will be analyzing Germanic fairy tales with a focus on the unsanitized works of the Brothers Grimm, in and out of context. Expect detours into history: the political and religious leanings of the time, daily life and culture, etc.

My question to you students is whether you would prefer for the readings to be listed online, or if you would prefer that I distribute actual collections for the readings and reserve the electronic format for assignments.

Good afternoon.

I am Jean-Paul Beaubier. Technically I am a returning professor, but I have been gone long enough that I'm seeing the faces of former students on the staff roster. (In fact, I think I'm going to be acting as an aide to the boy who used to create interesting holes in the landscape during his flight lessons.) Given that so much has changed, treat me as if I am new to the place.

To head off a few questions at the pass:
1 - I left to deal with family matters which I would rather not discuss at present.
2 - I will not be taking on solo classes until the new semester; until then, I will be lending a hand where I am needed.
3 - You may call me Jean-Paul, Paul, or Mister Beaubier. Call me 'JP' and there will be suffering.

Feel free to introduce yourselves.

Is there a woodshop on campus? Or at least a place where I could get my hands on a workbench and some basic tools, including band saw, plane, spokeshave? I'd go shopping but I don't think Hank is going to take to sawdust too well.

"I'll let them sleep on Delphine's side of the bed."

Because, of course, that would be no fun.

Fun would be playing the "how close can you sleep to Papa?" game followed by the "if we both sleep on one side, we can push Papa off the bed" game. On the other hand, Bella and Delphine are so cute, I don't care. They woke me up this morning by chasing each other around the bed and then playing peek at each other from either side of me.

So I'm awake. Nothing like a shower supervised by a bird and a cat to bring a sense of normalcy to the day. Now we're going to go have coffee.

...are quite nice. I think I slept 10 hours and then some. Cece also makes good coffee.

Today: unpacking. Heaps of it. Also hunting down Alison and Lorna and writing letters and making phonecalls and... I'm swamped. Why did I let my personal assistant go? I must have been mad. Who knew things like sending out the laundry and making guest-lists and programming one's PDA were so time-consuming?

Anyone seen my cat?* Clarice, did Delphine end up in your room last night, chere? Nate, have you and Moira got her?

She and Bella are going to pack their little bags and run away to conquer the world one of these days. I worry when she's not around. I hope the security downstairs is cat and bird tight.

* She's been found. Shameless wench is living in sin with Bella, apparently. This says terrible things about my parenting, I'm sure.

If Hank tries to feed me baby food one more time, we will both end up covered in strained pears. I don't have fur to wash the goo out of; I have nothing to lose.

I think...
...I shall forgive Phelps for being American. Johan Kenkhuis needs no forgiving for anything, of course.

[Edit: Yes, I still love the Olymics. Especially the summer ones. Yes, I am that shallow.]

...but anyone who'd like to watch a movie - the condition being that Hugo Weaving must be in it - can join Angelo and I in the common room any minute now, so that we're done well before dinner. If you get here in time, you can argue over what movie to watch until I get tired of listening to you and pick for you. Cecilia, if you're about, bring popcorn, chere.

Delphine has been on the prowl.

* one bean, green, now dessicated (ugh)
* one squeaky toy, blue, much squeaked
* one thermometer, electronic
* one ball of twine
* one roll of tape
* one PDA stylus
* two rubber ducks, yellow
* two feathers, Bella's (found in her bed, I'm not asking)
* three green barrettes, mismatched
* four drinking straws
* five pairs of socks, white(2)/red/argyle/purple
* thirteen paper clips

I think she's stressed. I'll put everything that someone might want back in a basket in the kitchen unless anyone prefers personal delivery.

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I Didn't Get What I Want, I Got What I Need

...man, it hurts like hell down here on my knees...

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