This week's capers

I'm bogged down in dissertation-land this month, trying to finish a chapter before I start teaching in mid-July.

Things I have been doing lately, in addition to writing my dissertation:

Pondering the confluence of events that leads pets to get sick immediately before one's partner leaves on a scheduled trip.Washing a lot of bedding. See previous point.Watching season 1 of Leverage and pondering the caper plot. It's a silly, fun show with a ridiculously sentimental frame story, but it's also...