So it's nearly six . . .

And the blot is late.  The faculty meeting lasted until nearly 4:20, and I arrived back at my room--geared up to do the blogs before leaving--only to encounter about six guys armed with power tools who were taking apart the computer tables and building new ones.  I left.  No blog.

So now I'm 35 miles north, where we still have some snow around the edges, and here is what you need to know/do for sure:

1) The Awakening should be completely finished.  There will be a short closed-book quick-write tomorrow that will focus on the ending:  everything, essentially, that happens once Edna arrives at Grand Isle (people, activities, conversations, the beach, the water). 

2) In all classes, the childbirth scene.  Why is it important?  What about Madame Ratignolle is significant?  What is there about Edna/Edna's reactions that should be noted?  Anything else??

3) In 1st and 3rd, some direct squaring off of Alcee Arobin and Robert Lebrun (and maybe some finishing up in 6th).

Be thinking, also, about the sorts of things that are most intriguing, potentially illuminating, etc., to compare/contrast between these last two works.