My grad student life is consuming, especially as I get up very early for some sessions–and sometimes I don’t go to bed at all but power through to the wee morning hours with a midnight coffee and I’m loving it. But my brain is so busy. So here is my puppy, 9 mos old now, during a very rainy last few days.

Yours in meeting deadlines and writing critical essays when you haven’t written critical essays in forever,

yours in enjoying every second of grad student life, especially the writing (sometimes on demand),

also yours in sloshing through mudfields in Hokas because of donating rain boots to charity after the fires earlier this year,

and yours in my bit of tinderbox-California finally, thoroughly getting drenched with rain,

PB