I hooped after I finished working today. Due to lack of space in our apartment and my lack of desire to break stuff, I move a table and hoop in the reading lab after the students leave. Thankfully, I haven't been exhausted by the end of the afternoon for the last few days. There's one move that I struggled with when we learned it in class Saturday, and now when I try it, even super-slowed down, it seems like an impossibility of physics. It also wrenches my shoulder.

A serendipitous discovery: "Enter Sandman" is really excellent to hoop to.

Alex was deferred for ordination.

It's a long story & I don't want to talk about it anymore today. Suffice it to say that there's a lot of anger & disappointment going around.

Fortunately this doesn't affect his ability to be appointed to a church, and two particular churches are very interested in him. Hopefully we'll know where we're going sooner than we thought.