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Sept 12, 02:53 pm

Catching Up

Finally updating. Internet has been a real pig lately, and finally has decided to cooperate. Doesn’t it know that I can’t live without it????

LOL

Anyway, here are the first few that I haven’t uploaded yet. Please forgive the long post. I thought lumping them together would be better than posting individuals.

3 September, we were still in Charleston on vacay. We visited an old plantation called Middleton Place, and as a slave historian myself, I expected to hate it, but learned that despite the fact that most plantations do not focus on the African-American experience, this one did and did a good job of it too.

4 September, we drove home to Atlanta, and I learned that I develop some sort of talking disease in a car during long trips.

5 September, I had the day off from teaching, but had to catch up on the mountain of email that was waiting for me in my various inboxes.

6 September, back to school after the holiday. My students are zombies anyway in my US Since 1865 class because the class is so late in the day, but after a long holiday, I just couldn’t keep them interested.

7 September, I got a phone call from my sister. We aren’t close at all, and are known to barely speak for periods of time. This time, it was as if we had that picturesque sister relationship. Just threw me for a loop.