~holyspiritomb, try this command: `figlet -f jerusalem.flf "jzehvu"`

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                                         | | _   | | |_| _  | |  | |   | |  | |
                                         | || |  | |    | | |_|  | |   | |  | |
                                         |_||_|  |_|    | |      |_|   |_|  |_|
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* * *

Spouse E's birthday came recently but I was woefully unprepared for it. Been
wrapped up in the trip they just took and in the chaotic details of my own life.
I feel like kind of a lousy spouse and I'm trying to think of ways to show that
I care even though I'm a mess right now. My sister's birthday is this month too.

* * *

Gonna convene with my advisor and try to come up with tentative answers to
questions like when I'm graduating, what courses I should take next semester,
&c.

* * *

I saw the advisor and worked out what I need to work out. I always get this
impression, possibly mistaken, that he's bored to death whenever I talk to him.
He was fiddling with a Rubik's Cube when I stepped into his office, and solved
it a few seconds after I sat down.

When I asked about what natural science course I should take next semester, he
said a lot of people take Life Science for that requirement, but he said it was
"a waste of money". He said something later about how I could take "real
biology" instead, but I'm leaning toward an earth science course anyway.

* * *

I hope to take Spouse E out on a little date this weekend. I've got to get them
to think about the sort of place they'd like to go, though.

* * *

Studying astronomoy has brought to mind watching Jack Horkheimer's 5-minute
*Star Gazer* segments on PBS in the late 1990s.
[Here's one on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhoNffiu3Q0).