We let the cats stay in the house last night since it was actually raining outside at bedtime. I feared that our sleep might be quite disrupted, but, actually, they were very good and caused us essentially no trouble. I still didn't get up early enough to go for a walk, but I DID walk down to recycle the cardboard and buy challah for Shabbat at the bakery.
I taught only one 2-unit Berlitz lesson today: 9:00-10:30. It was one of my favorite students, who works in the HR department of a company in Slovakia.
We stayed at home for lunch today because our landlord was coming to replace the broken blinds in our living room. We ordered our traditional Friday lunch from Il Pentolino, though, and simply had them deliver it here. As it turned out, our landlord came quite a bit later than he had said, but he and the other guy who came with him, who was a professional worker with blinds, got the job done before Shabbat. It's very nice to have blinds that work properly again!
We lit candles, drank a bit of sweet red wine, and ate challah to celebrate the arrival of another Shabbat. Pascal, our black cat with white trim, joined in the celebration by listening to the blessings and eating rolled oats and little black seeds from the challah.
Today the videos and exercises for week 2 of my class, "Write Like Mozart", went up, and I have already watched all the lectures and done the exercises. I did learn one new thing this week, about "direct octaves". I think I may have vaguely heard of them before, but I didn't know what they were, and so I may well not have always avoided them. I think, however, that most of the time I probably did.
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