Introducing Lucy.

Several weeks ago, one of my best canine friends died. Digby was one of the first friends I made at Wheaton. I met him at After Hours the Sunday after the first week of school and came back to his house later that week (perhaps the next day?) to walk him. I've many fond memories of times with him, and I'm more than a little proud that of the many college students that came into his home, I was definitely his favorite.

Digby lived a long and happy life, and now there is a new puppy in the house who I hope will be my friend. Lucy is a Mastiff. She's about 12 weeks in this picture, and now, three weeks later, I can barely pick her up. I'm looking forward to getting to know her better.

Could it really have been six weeks ago?

Each weekend I think, "Oh, it's been so long since I've blogged. I want to post something!" And then the weekend is over, and it hasn't happened.

I should be finishing Henry IV Part One and writing some sort of response and comparison between it and Richard III, but before I do, here are a couple pictures from my time in Maryland at the end of summer vacation.

This visit to Maryland was my first chance to meet baby Laurel. She's very sweet, and William didn't mind me holding her while I snuggled with him and read Richard Scarry's Best Word Book Ever. I always suggest Blueberries for Sal or some other nice story book, but he won't be dissuaded.

Forsooth?

This is why I much prefer reading Shakespeare to reading people who write about Shakespeare:

. . . The sacrificed signifier disappears behind the signified. Is this victimage of the signifier nothing but a metaphor, or is it mysteriously connected to the scapegoat as such, in the sense that it is rooted in that ritual space where the major signifier is also a victim, not merely in the semiotic sense, this time, but in the sense of Shylock or of Richard III? The play of the signifier, with its arbitrary interruption for the sake of a differentiated structure, operates exactly like the theatrical and ritual process, with its conflictual undifferentiation suddenly resolved and returned to static differentiation through the elimination of a victim. . .

Hmm?