Well doggy friends, I was very busy last week! I went to college with my Dad and helped him teach three lectures and two seminars. He says I'm his teaching assistant. In the lectures I take attendance by going up and down the aisles checking out each person. If the girls are wearing sandals I lick their toes and make them giggle. And I check their bags for contraband - no food allowed in the classroom unless I get some of it. After I check everyone out I settle down by the lectern for a snooze while my Dad walks around talking. Sometimes people come in late and I make sure that they don't sneak in unnoticed. I also am an adjunct in the environmental health and safety department - I'm teaching my students not to put stuff on the floor in the classroom. Coffee cup lids are great fun. I pick them up and toss them in the air, catch them and then bring them back to the person who dropped them. And I teach the No Cell Phones rule. If a cell phone wakes me up I find the culprit and sit in front of them until they turn the phone off. My students are pretty smart - they usually learn their lesson the first time. And its amazing how much learning happens when you make an example of someone. Going to college is not all work. When we walk outdoors between classes I find chewing gum. Dad always says, Leave it! but some of that gum smells just too good to resist. And walking across campus is so much fun because the girls always say how cute I am and stop to say hello. I think the automatic doors are fascinating. I stand in front of the doors and they just open. I don't have to sit and wait or anything! I ride elevators, too but on those I have to be polite - I wait until everyone else goes through the doors before me.
>From Gelli's family: We are totally thrilled! All our work this summer has paid off in a well-behaved, well socialized pup. And for a 5 month old tyke Gelli did very, very well. He could use some work on leash walking and leave it but on the whole he was fantastic. This means that we do not have to leave him home in the crate, and he and Jim get to spend time together. (I suppose that this consitutes a brag - check goes out tonite.) ===== Patricia Buickerood __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
