8/20: big & little

At one point today I was surprised by how calm it was for the day before classes begin---but then it got more flustering (sigh) in a number of ways.  Still, at the end of the day I can say that I enjoyed the close detail work of putting macrons on long vowels in Latin words for tomorrow's translation passage and that I was glad for the sight of the moon and the planets in the ecliptic after I left the walking track this evening.