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commodified said:

Pick up the nearest book to you. Turn to page 45. The first sentence describes your sex life
in 2012.

In a spirit of immense optimism, I picked up the nearest book and it said:

With the middle and upper classes excluded, the army had to fills its ranks with freedmen, dispossessed peasants, city rabble (notoriously bad soldiers, partly because they were undernourished) - and Germans.

I'm not sure this makes me feel optimistic or pessimistic. There are indeed some really gorgeous Germans out there, but I don't know them.

The book is Civilization of the Middle Ages by Norman F. Cantor.

Out in French limbo...

My French class has been cancelled. Seems I was the only one who signed up. The administrator said, "That's the problem with the students who are almost bilingual. It's harder to fill the classes at the upper levels."

She thinks I'm "almost bilingual". Hot damn!

Hope she's right.

There's a ray of hope: if two more students sign up by Saturday, there may be Saturday morning classes at my level. I live in hope.

Tian Tian and Yang Guang

There is now a Panda Cam at the Edinburgh Zoo.

Makes me think of how I spent so much time watching little Hua Mei in San Diego twelve years ago.