3/24: a silver lining

...to getting up very early this morning?  A work-related dream or the rainstorm or a combination of the two woke me up, and I couldn't go back to sleep.  In my dozy daze over coffee I worked on an example cento to give my students as part of an extra credit assignment.  They can opt to make a cento using lines from a character in one of the tragedies we'll be reading; so that I wouldn't step on any of their toes, I made my example using Calypso's speeches from the Odyssey.  I liked what emerged, and maybe my unsleepy sleepiness helped the process?