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I clearly didn't have enough projects to work on in the next two weeks, so fate decided I needed one more. Last week's blue screen problems with my laptop have advanced to the point that ... let's just say the computer's not going to work again until I reinstall Windows. Don't expect to see me online for long periods of time until May 9 at the very earliest.

Meanwhile, I hope everyone who observes it is having a happy and kosher Passover. Mine has been lovely so far. Amazingly enough, my chicken soup tastes like the chicken soup my mother makes. I used her recipe, of course, but that's not a guarantee of flavor.

I found the afikomen (a small piece of matzah traditionally hidden during the Passover Seder) on Saturday night. My prize for this was a six-inch-tall fuzzy gray elephant. It isn't animate, of course, but it amuses me anyway.

I named it Soredamors.

I should make an extensive post to celebrate my one-year LJ anniversary (November 27). Instead, I am trying frantically to finish enough of the current paper to present it in class tomorrow. I'm only posting right now to make one frustrated shriek:

Why, oh WHY, can't families think of more than three names to give to their children? Also, if one must repeat a family name, can one at least keep track of how many people have had that family name? Yes, Simon de Montfort, I'm looking at you. Also at your father, Simon de Montfort, and your son, Simon de Montfort, and about two or three other unidentified Simons de Montfort. One of these Simons I have found identified as Simon III in one source and Simon IV in another.

There are also several people named Amaury de Montfort and several more named Guy de Montfort to add to the fun.