Regen +5

Still in Chicago (I fly out tomorrow and get back tomorrow night) and enjoying it immensely. So far today I have done nothing that I consider extremely productive. Which is kind of funny, because I've been doing quite a bit. I hiked around the campus. I went to the bookstore and picked up one of those book/CD sets for languages to help me learn Gaelic (scrounging about on the net just wasn't working out for me) and then went across campus to the other bookstore to get batteries for my CD player and The Fabric of the Universe by Brian Greene on CD (recommended by the prof who taught the class on Our Preposterous Universe yesterday, and I'd been curious about it already so that gave me the extra little bit of motivation that I needed ;) and then went back to my sister's place and actually studied the Gaelic--let's hope this is something I'll be able to sustain ;)--and then read The Little Prince at her insistance. Also a very good story. Read it! After that I did some review of the pronunciation of Gaelic (it's tricky stuff, but I can remember that "tion" doesn't sound anything like "tie-on" in English and I do okay with that, so I figure I'll manage all right once I get a better feel for the rules ;)

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