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Great news, which I forgot to post a few days ago -- M. has recieved a notice from the INS and has an appointing for fingerprinting and "biometrics" on January 13th. On the same day, I received a "notice of receipt" -- date of receipt 14 months before date of notice. But things are moving ahead, no matter how slowly.

Survived the semester. Have to pick up a few late papers on Thursday, but mostly it's done. I liked my courses and my students (despite which, thanks to wonderlandkat for being the only brave soul to kindly acknowledge my rant of the other day).

We saw *Last Samurai* a few nights ago -- I enjoyed the spectacle of it while I was watching, but afterwards it felt like just one more of those "token white guy as main character" movies Hollywood loves to make. (You know -- token white guy fights apartheid, token white guy fights the KKK, token white guy dances with wolves . . . ) I did like the character and actor of the Japanese warlord (who, among his many other merits, was *not* Tom Cruise), but it really bothered me that the representative of all that was traditional looks like he'd had the surgery to make his eyelids more Western. From now on I'll stay with Kurosawa.

ROTK countdown -- 13 hours -- one faculty party and a night's sleep away!