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Tomorrow is day one of the new semester, new classes, new kids.  A fresh start, in some ways, and also having to start over in terms of teaching kids the basic rules of surviving in my theatre.  It's hard to believe the year is already half over.

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I spent today cutting and attaching shelf paper to the new kitchen cabinets and drawers, and then transferring things from the living room floor back into the kitchen.  Looking at it now, it seems like I've barely made a dent in the work; there's still so much to be done.  It'll be another month, most likely, before we will have countertops, and we can't have a sink or dishwasher until the countertops are done.  So we're nowhere near finished, but not having tins of soup lying haphazardly about the living room is moderate progress.

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