4/7: this afternoon

...I finally wrote emails to some students who are working on an Odyssey alteration project I'm supervising.  It made me realize how much I like each of them, and though I'm sorry I'm not seeing them--now that we've all dispersed for the semester--I'm excited that they're working on this project at a distance, and I'll be excited to meet up with them in the fall.

After dinner I took a walk down to the dock: