Journal of a Sabbatical

March 23, 2000

deja vu

Today's Reading: Early Spring in Massachusetts: from the Journals of Henry David Thoreau edited by H. G. O. Blake

There is no hot water today. No heat either, but that hardly matters with the gorgeous mild spring weather. Busy Body is running around the courtyard with her portable phone rounding up everybody in both buildings and ordering us all to call the maintenance guy. Now, since he already knows about it and he already knows it's the whole courtyard, all that having everybody call in accomplishes is to require more of his time to return all the phone calls.