This holiday season has been very dear to me with good friends and family, hectic but in a fun way and with time for reflection and gratitude. Plus, I got a lot of really fine gifts and I hope that I was able to give in kind. I really liked everything that I got--so often Christmases, even for all the fretful planning and talk of meaning, still sometimes are not as memorable. Regular readers will understand why I was so jazzed to get this bath/door mat, and the virtually safe skateboard is really cool and the Bailey's and the great horned-lamp and the art deco milk pitcher, etc., which I should showcase later. I received in the post a New Year's greeting card from my online graduate school, which was a nice greeting--though I very much enjoyed having the Winter Break from the Kant Generator. Not to spoil the sentiment, since it is a nice card, but I noticed that in the side text that expresses "peace" in the languages of the world easily rendered in Western alphabet, there was a wish for "eace-pay." Now I have to wonder about the academic standards of an institution of higher learning that uses pig-Latin. I suspected that Fandriampahalemana was Malagasy but I had to make sure it was in fact a real word.
This holiday season has been very dear to me with good friends and family, hectic but in a fun way and with time for reflection and gratitude. Plus, I got a lot of really fine gifts and I hope that I was able to give in kind. I really liked everything that I got--so often Christmases, even for all the fretful planning and talk of meaning, still sometimes are not as memorable. Regular readers will understand why I was so jazzed to get this bath/door mat, and the virtually safe skateboard is really cool and the Bailey's and the great horned-lamp and the art deco milk pitcher, etc., which I should showcase later. I received in the post a New Year's greeting card from my online graduate school, which was a nice greeting--though I very much enjoyed having the Winter Break from the Kant Generator. Not to spoil the sentiment, since it is a nice card, but I noticed that in the side text that expresses "peace" in the languages of the world easily rendered in Western alphabet, there was a wish for "eace-pay." Now I have to wonder about the academic standards of an institution of higher learning that uses pig-Latin. I suspected that Fandriampahalemana was Malagasy but I had to make sure it was in fact a real word. 
