Friday, I went to the Shakespeare Tavern with some students to watch Two Gentlemen of Verona. It was really good; I'd never seen it performed before. It isn't one of Shakespeare's most popular plays; there are several problems with it (mainly the ending) that leave you going "Huh?" at the end. At any rate, it was a moderately pleasant thing to do on a Friday night.

Saturday night was Daylight Saving's Time (the good one). That extra hour of sleep was absolutely fantastic. Unfortunately, my classes turned in their second set of papers on Friday, so I've got paper-grading to do that the extra hour from DST won't compensate for.

Well, two-thirds of the semester is over, and Christmas is so close I can almost taste it. This is the first Christmas in about four years that we'll be back in our old house (the one we grew up in). Last year, I hosted it at my apartment, and the two years before that, we had it in Iowa. It'll be good to be back.