12/16: still taking a breather

...from grading.  I wrote more cards--to friends as well as to folks on the Angel Card list.  I drove a friend to the airport.  I did a little grocery shopping.  I listened to some of Vita Nostra.  I read Emma Southon's chapter on Sulpicia Lepidina in A Rome of One's Own (and I wish I had had everyone in the upper-level Latin class read that particular chapter instead of its being one option among many).