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According to the newspaper, on this day in 1477, William Caxton produced the first book to be printed in English. (And you know what? The 16th century book I was looking at in the library on Friday was waxing eloquent about William Caxton in the English Inventions appendix.)

Also today:
theengineer has joined the ranks of LJ users. I've had a recent surge of Toronto-based friends jumping aboard, and he's the latest!

I now have many keys. I've always thought of keys as power tools, so having so many keys and passes for things at the university makes me feel like I must be accumulating power. Well, within small bits of the university, anyways. My newest key is for my job. My previous one was for my carrel. This brings to 5 the number of keys I can now successfully use on campus, plus one swipey-pass thing which is good for getting into my department's building.

Yesterday:
Last night a group of us gathered to watch the FOTR extended version and eat happy potluck foods. Really good good. We made too much couscous salad and are still eating it, but at least it's good couscous salad. Brownies... popcorn... cocoa from The Cocomotion Machine (family tradition, evidently, in Christopher's family)... fish, chicken, caesar salad, bread, corn pudding, and banana bread. ( And the movie, of course.  )

I just saw an alarming sight: the first house on my street to have Christmas lights this year. It's still over a month away! There's no hurry!