Oh dear God.. I've went and done it again. No updates for almost a week! My fault, definitely. Lecturing is definitely more than I expected. It's 20-30 percent actual teaching, with the rest allocated for research, admin duties, consulting..the list goes on and on. Had a pretty good weekend, with my swimming lessons coming along nicely, and topped off with a brand spanking new board game: The Lord of The Rings. For once, a game that doesn't pit everyone against each other, but instead forces everyone to cooperate as they struggle to bring the One Ring to Mordor and destroy it before Sauron arrives on the board. Now before I go on and on about it, how do I measure it's level o' fun? Simple..Rosalia simply canNOT stop playing it. So much so she made us play again and again until we finally beat Sauron and she destroyed the Ring (although regrettably with the loss of Pippin and Frodo, Read: me and Johan). Even though our characters were out of the game, we cheered her on to the final moment when Sam cast the Ring into mount Doom. And the sacrifice seemed very worthwhile, in the end. As I said, my type of game.

In other news, my sister has gone home for a week..since her semester break has started. What this essentially means is I'll be handling the 7 menaces alone! Not to mention any messes they may make. I guess there's a price to pay for love. In this case, it's loads of poo. Oh well.

Looks like a suitable size for an early update. More later, as I travel through the weirdness and desolation that is my life. Later folks...long post about swimming coming soon.