monday morning round-up

• My grandmother (side note:  before he met my mother's parents, my father had never known anyone who hadn't liked FDR; in fact he had not known there were such people) is unimpressed by Sarah Palin.  My mother reports that she says McCain may have some qualities that would make him a good president, but judgment is clearly not one of them.  (She's voting in New York, so she's not so important of a swing voter, but she has a sister in Indiana.  I encouraged my mother to sound out her aunt on the subject asap.  [g])
  
• The days are getting shorter here in big enough increments that it's obvious to me from, like, one week to the next.  I find this odd, because I remember noticing that sort of thing when I lived Much Further North (Oxford is on approximately the same latitude as Calgary.  Latitude-and-climate-bingo is a fun game, incidentally.  Cleveland, where I grew up, is about level with Barcelona, but I don't think they have our winters).
  
• My place is almost entirely unpacked and moved-into, which is v. exciting for me.

That's all I've got, actually, because now I'm at work and I forgot that I was going on a field trip today, so the whole shape of the day has changed.  :-)