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What we’ve been up to:

Bryce has been playing nurse to Ashley, who had a 104 temperature Friday. She stayed in bed most of the weekend, except for a little venture to IKEA (in a slow and dazzed state) and to church in the evening. Now she has no idea what to do, having not worked on her editorial assistantship stuff she was going to finish up and not having read or written anything more for her research. Her head is now beginning to miraculously clear; a few days ago, things were pretty fuzzy.

Bryce has been studying like a maniac, maniac … (everyone sing!). He’s finished 2 of 4 finals as well as 2 sections of his written licensure exam. Hebrew was awful, so he says. But thankfully there’s always next semester to pull his grades up. But, regardless, getting licensed in the PCA is a much bigger deal than if he gets Bs or Cs or As or Bs. His studying has been punctuated with Coca-Cola drips as well as necessary sustenance such as the millionaire shortbread Ashley made him on Thursday before all went haywire.

Last week, Ashley had an interview with some English faculty to be a TA next year. It went fine – except for the dreaded questions about defining the differences between British and American Romanticism and the Enlightenment. But they need TAs and her actual teaching practice (leading a tutorial session w/ 10 students on Keats) went very well, so here’s hoping they pick her to teach – maybe even in January! Wow, an income, what’s that? (even a small one for TAing is much better than what we have now, which is…nothing).

That’s about it. We have a lot to do. Bryce has his last two finals this week then we’ll jet up on the train to Banchory for our Xmas celebration with the Crocketts on Friday (and for Carter’s birthday celebration too) until Monday. Then we’ll have a few more days here in Edinburgh, where Bryce will be studying for the last section of his licensure exam and Ashley will try to pack and write some more of her gargantuan chapter on emigration. (It’s wee now, but by then, hopefully it’ll be getting to be gargantuan). We also will be cooking away for our massive day of feasting, Christmas Day, which we will be celebrating with the Randalls and Hays. We’ll also be going to church for the Watchnight service on the 24th, followed by drinks at the Urminsky’s; then church on the 25th and food and then early on the 26th David (our pastor here) is taking us to the airport for our sunny Californian holiday! Wow, that’s soon. We’re trying to get loads of work done and get lots of sleep in the meantime.

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