Spring Break with Jobins

Takes me to Maryland this year.
I am sitting at the Diggs' table with my books and coffee right now while Joe plays his Lego Indiana Jones video game- soon we're going to get out the toys, but he's just having so much fun. :-) A little while ago I was on Skype with Joey & Kate in Amsterdam, who I'm going to work with there in June, and Joe came over to ask me a question. When he saw Joey & Kate and realized they were talking to me, and that they could see me, he whispered, "How can you talk to your friends on the 'puter?!"
When he realized they could see him, he demonstrated his spidey dance for a few minutes and then stood next to me rocking forward and back, watching himself in the camera. He got a pretty huge kick out of Joey in Amsterdam copying him. :)
It's been such a fun break so far. Of course I miss everyone at home. (Hi, Mamasita!) But this is good, too. I get to work on my papers during the day and hang out with cousins in the evening. Last night I was working on a topic for my Lord Byron paper, so I read Jessi to sleep with his Hebrew Verses (Israel in captivity) and his Stanzas to Augusta (his sister-in-law, who seems to have exerted a lifesaving influence on him). The poems are beautiful, but sleepy, and though Jessi liked them, she drifted off in just a few minutes. For being a scandalous poet (I haven't come across scandal yet), Byron has some really beautiful and thought-provoking work. I love the Hebrew verses- maybe I'll post one or two later. :)
I have some pictures, but I forgot my camera cord, so I'll have to do a picture-blog of break when I get back :)
... Thinking more about how to reach out to the needy and lost in Amsterdam, especially the large Muslim population.
"Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God, who also made us sufficient as ministers the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life."
(2 Corinthians 3:6)