I’d hoped that I’d be able to take some of my vacation to maybe assemble the syllabus for my summer course, and maybe finished typing up one of the two or three papers that want finishing. My bad planning put paid to the first plan when I managed to leave the textbook in the Midwest, and so far the second hasn’t happened yet.
Vaguely paying attention to recent news: the coverage of last night’s vote in Parliament has been pretty awful. The general consensus in the press is that the Conservatives won a vote requesting the PM to dissolve Parliament, and have every right to be outraged that he hasn’t done so already. What actually happened, of course, is that the Conservatives won a vote to direct a committee to recommend the dissolution of Parliament to the PM, and — since I don’t know that the committee has had a chance to meet and discuss this direction yet — the PM’s fully within his rights to maintain the government for the moment. And the American governmental reaction — that Canada might be about to collapse into instability and chaos — is a little silly.