Moving along

Bonus gym session with a friend who's been living in California for a while , finishing grad school and working in the ESL field. She has wonderful positive energy, and her optimism is almost contagious. When teaching is going well, it tends to buoy up the spirits.
Done with the text of Gulliver's Travels, and now I need to finish the challengingly scholarly introduction, which I could not get into when I began the book.