"So saying she bound on her glittering golden sandals, imperishable, with which she can fly like the wind over land or sea; she grasped the redoubtable bronze-shod spear, so stout and sturdy and strong, wherewith she quells the ranks of heroes who have displeased her, and down she darted from the topmost summits of Olympus..." The Odyssey
Greetings, my friends. All is well on the college front, and more than well in fact. All of my classes look to be in order and I'm excited about this semester.(I feel as if it is going to be an excellent one!) Not too much to report other than general glee at returning to new friends and fresh studies. However, one of my wing-mates has moved off campus due to financial issues and as such his bookshelf was confiscated by me (and my previous bookshelf was taken by my roommate), after a little bit of round-robin we ended up in our respective positions and all is well. I think I have made permanent roommates in some of my wing-mates, once the room relocations begin we shall request to be in the same room together. (a couple of us are also applying to become Resident's Assistants and if that happens who knows where we shall end up) But, that's for later in the semester. For now we laugh and study and smile on the future. Expect a more highly refined short story than I have produced in some time to appear sometime by Monday...
Dt
PS
Do you know why they call the two shortest night watches dog-watches?
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Ooh, DT the RA.
Re the PS: no, I don't... but I'm guessing you do.
Quite.
Well, a dog-watch is a traditional english naval watch in the middle of the night. The idea behind the dog watch was to let sailors get some sleep so they were shorter watches when people are generally least able to keep to attention for long. The typical response to the question, "why are dog watches shorter than others?" is "Because they are cur-tailed."
Dt
Glad to hear things are going well :-)
I'm glad to hear that everything is going well with you. (i'm posting from me phone - hence the wyrd spacing) i hope everything continues to go as planned. I just can't see u as an RA, but hey whatever works.
Because those sleeping get only 'dog sleep' in this watch.
Glad to hear from you and awaiting further tales.
Ex Deo nascimur, in Jesu mortimur, per spiritum sanctum reviviscimus
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