This and That

I came back from three hours of Italian absolutely exhausted but it was interesting. However,  I would not want to do that regularly. I left hriefly after one-and-a-half hours to move my car and repark it. In the parking garage I use, the first two hours are free and after that, it costs 75 cents per half hour. I just drove out of the parking garage, turned left and back in again.  When I finally got out I was starving. On the way home, I had as usual to traverse our roundabout where there seemed to have been a collision. I was waiting patiently in line when the ambulance came. I whipped out of line and into the space behind the ambulance and swung off the roundabout in a different direction and thus home.

In the first class, la prof mentioned that she would not be in Vermont next year since she and her husband were moving to South Carolina where her grandchildren are. Well, I wish her well but that spoils my plans for next year since I had planned to take Italian II again with her when I got back from Italy!  Well, perhaps it is time for me to investigate the University of Vermont’s  program for the Officially Old…

I finally got an answer from the teacher of the class I will be working with on Friday. She told me that although most of the class could tell time, there were some who couldn’t. I was telling la prof this so she suggested that I did the numbers to a hundred– or as close as I could get in the time and finish up by teaching them to use the numbers by reading the hours and saying "Sono le dodici" or whatever number I indicate on a drawing of a clock on the board. She thinks that they would all be able to manage the hours and perhaps the half hours.

Ok, what else. Well, this morning I got on the scales and I am down four pounds from the last time I did this about a week ago. I am not excited about this because I can actually lose that much just peeing at times  but I am going to continue cutting down just a bit on what I am eating, and more importantly, continue riding my bike. Yesterday I went out for 15 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes in the afternoon. It doesn’t seem tto be causing any more pain in my hip than was there before but when I was walking to and from my car today, I could definitely feel it in my calves! And apart from a little weight loss, being able to be active makes  a lot of difference to my level of depression.

I have had my hair short. very short. Well, actually, a little too short but it looks Ok and it will grow,

QUOTATION: If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it!

Jonathan Winters

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