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In a flash, Dresden has been transformed into a winter wonderland. I didn’t see it coming. It was sunny and crispily mild this morn when I stepped out into the garden to take a shower.
I didn’t put on a sweater or bring a winter hat when I left the house a good hour and a half before class began. I stopped at a bakery and had lunch.

I saw the first flakes come down with mild interest. As I ate my steak with red cabbage and potatoes, I studied two stickers on the wall. They were jelly-filled sugared donoughts with arms, legs and faces. The man JD says “I’m hot for ya!” and the lady tells us curtly, “I’m a sweety”. I looked back out the window and the snow was coming down so densely you couldn’t see the houses across the street.

On the way to the classroom I briefly lost my sense of direction in the blizzard of ought 3.

It was over about as fast as it began, leaving the whole town looking like a fairytale landscape.

Oh goodness, somebody’s birthday present arrived today. I gotthis and that.

Come to the
English Club Winter Solstice Party!

I think I forgot to mention the date on the flyer. 20.12.03, the day before Winter Solstice.

I miss ol’ Ron. I took the liberty of recording our last
interview the night before he flew back to Cali.

After this Tuesday on, be sure to listen to last weeks program of This American Life. There, you can listen to part two of Hyder Akbar’s audio diary entries from his second visit in Afghanistan.
Hyder Akbar, an American-Afghani, returned last year with his exiled father. His father, a former freedom fighter, is now a rather important official in the government.
In the second installment, Hyder describes an Afghani TV gameshow where the winner could win a case of soap; later he records an entry while in an ambush. The most heavy segment deals with a friend of the family who becomes only the third Afghan prisoner to die in captivity.

(part one)

They caught the guy.

Little Wee Diary day four
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How to wash a dog.

Little Wee Diary Day three.
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Class will be held this coming week in the usual spot, D?R 274.

Those guys at AP are a might tech savvy. Read about that new-biggest-prime-number-guy righthere. Find the mistake?

Shafer ran a Dell Dimension PC with 2 gigahertz of memory and an Intel Pentium 4 microprocessor _ 'like you'd get at Circuit City' _ in his office for 19 days until Nov. 17, when he glanced at the screen at 2:30 p.m. and saw 'New Mersenne prime found.' The number is 6,320,430 digits long and would need 1,400 to 1,500 pages to write out

Little Wee Diaries — Day ta-hooo.
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