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This morning I slept as long as I wanted, then made coffee and brunch: whole-wheat pasta with eggplant, mushrooms, garlic, sun-dried tomatoes from my mother's garden, and myzithra cheese. Later I might make bread!

Saturday morning I got up early -- though not quite early enough to be on time -- to teach my class at An Tir Heraldic Symposium. Juliana of

sue_n_julia was one of my two students, and we chatted happily for two hours. Then I found

sablebadger,

hanksan, and

glasseye in the common room.

hanksan gave me the pennon he made for me. It's gorgeous! It's made of red and black silk, with tails to flutter in the wind. I just need to find a pole to display it, though maybe in the meantime I should hang it on my apartment wall?

I took classes, too: online conflict-checking, and Countess Elisabeth's Graphical Heraldry class. She had some lovely slides, including a Scandinavian cushion with a heraldic unicorn motif and an illuminated manuscript with tree roots crawling all over the margins. Then there was feast, including a lovely artichoke pie with dates and raisins, though they weren't as careful about feeding the vegetarians first as they should have been -- not that I'm vegetarian myself, but I felt bad for

glasseye. Z. didn't get to eat dinner with us young folk, which made me sad -- Countess Elisabeth dragged her away -- but

aelfgyfu,

hanksan,

glasseye, and I discussed summer plans, and it was great to talk to

sablebadger, whom I haven't seen since September!

[Same game.]