Day: November 9, 2005

There are five of them in the library right now, two female and three males. The males are alternately making short charges at the females one at a time, then wheeling around to regroup and concealing themselves behind the library furniture and peering out behind and under it at the females. The males are also making a soft surussus among themselves and calling out to the females with a cry of “Do-you-have-a-brother?”. The females started out by feigning indifference, but have changed their position to bring them closer to the males. There was some mutual admiration of backpacks. The encounter ended when the females withdrew from the area in response to a call from an adult. The males have returned to a homework behavior.

Total encounter time 23 minutes.

Feeling much better after my “sanity day” yesterday. And tiernen was extra-nice to me too. He’s such a sweetie. I cleaned up the papers in the bedroom (well most of them) and dusted. I watched some Arrested Development on DVD. Then I went to Girl Scouts and then to FSU for a workshop on storytelling for some lateral entry teaching students.

I’m mostly ready to be back at work. Lots of paperwork to catch up on. My only nagging thing right now is that I can’t find my 3 hole punch at home. I wanted to put tiernen‘s papers into nifty binders for him and I wasn’t able to do so. I’ll keep looking.