first day of winter quarter

besides having hardly worked on my ba over break, and therefore being woefully behind, (topic what topic? the thing's due this spring... well, it will have something to do with Chinese criminal law... besides that... um...) the start of my penultimate quarter has begun without a hitch. i found myself smiling during chinese for no apparent reason, then remembered, oh yeah, i like school. that's why i feel so bored during break. not that christmas wasn't delightfully lovely: mexico, family, seviche, feeding pregnant kitties at the hotel restaurant, sun and sand, beer, austin, wine, friends, feeding kitties at the dinner table, sun and oak trees, texmex.

as for today, went to class , payed rent, bought flowers for the neighbors who looked after my cat over break, walked back to campus for another class but found out it was canceled-- but i did have a nice chat with a cute classmate who had also showed up, so not a total waste of time. but apparently i have a 15 page paper due today i was supposed to work on over break. i'll deal with that later- it's another ba thing, not as bad as it sounds.

but, i must get some work done. in conclusion, let me introduce you to my goose:



















his real name is Gustavus after Gustavus Adolphus the "father of modern warfare" (if i ever adopt two boy kitties at once i plan on naming them Clausewitz and Machiavelli). But he is far to floppy and cuddly to pull off that name, so it's been shortened to Goose. or, my big fluffy silly goose.