Was there a stencil for the Jack Skellington one? I'd love a Skellington pumpkin.

I'm not sure. I don't think smonster was working from a stencil, but there may be one out there somewhere.

Good luck with the community garden stuff, Spidra. It sounds like a fantastic project.

Spidra, your efforts on behalf of community gardening for your city are excellent. You should be proud of yourself. And I like to think, when it gets quiet here after board-time midnight, that it just might mean that the insomnia fairy has left a lot of people alone. And if the Western Hemisphere Insomniac contingent are quiet, then the Eastern Hemisphere people have nobody to play with but themselves. Errr, each other.... Errr... You know what I mean.

I'm always around here after 2am-ish board time. I don't always say much 'cause it's mainly just me!

In 'Naomi really will get a good PA team together one day soon' news, I interviewed for the second post yesterday and might recruit a PhD student from the more prestigious uni in the area (mine being the less prestigious one!). She answered an interview question with a Foucault reference. It's hard to say no to that. Also there was only one other candidate. So here's hoping. (First PA continues to be efficient and lovely.)

I am reading about the origin of the synoptic gospels and trying not to fall asleep. I'm sure this has something to do with my research. I'm not sure what.

I think if that happened during an attendant interview I was part of, it would make services a moot point because the shock would kill me. I loved watching KO get all impressed by Sexy Violinist and her...instrument. I don't know why I love seeing his inner fanboy so much, but sometimes it's so much easier to get next to than his Outer Cornell. He was seriously awed by that Strativarius and by the fact that, when she touched it, beautiful sounds came out...in a tiny way, it reminded me of when Cronkite did a rocket story and said "Golly!"(Which he thought sounded stupid, but was honest human emotion, imo.)

I have two students who missed a quiz without giving me advance notice. My general rule is no makeup quizzes unless you've told me about your absence ahead of time and I've OKed it. Each of these two asked me if they could take a makeup. The quiz was on Monday, and I had OKed both of them to miss the previous Friday because they were sick, so I said OK, and we scheduled a time for them to come to my office to take the quiz. Neither one showed up.

There are stencils out there if you google. I just looked at an example and freehanded it - it was easier than I thought.

Dana - we started FY2011 in July!

Neither one showed up.

Sucks to be them, pity about the grade.

Neither one showed up.

Sucks to be them, pity about the grade.

Seriously. Sounds like two zeroes to me.