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Well, Sir. . . Grading is all done, final grades were submitted last Tuesday the 5th, and I presented a poster at our internal teaching and learning conference on Wednesday. The last department meeting for the year followed on Thursday, and yesterday (Friday) was a "No Day." It's finally time to begin applying acrylic gloss to those 60 or so Anhalt-Zerbst figures. And at long last, glossing will get underway later today.
I'll start with the mounted colonel and the first 20 or so figures completed late last fall. Or maybe it was during the early winter? In any event, I'll move onto the next 20 and so forth if that goes quickly enough. I usually opt for a couple of coats to make'em nice and shiny with a third application of the stuff to those raised areas where the figures are more likely to get touched in the handling.
You know. To provide a bit more long-term protection to the brushwork. Outer upper arms, bayonets, hat corners, horse ears, muzzles, and tails, etc. It's one more of those inexact sciences that is a part of miniatures painting but one that's rarely discussed.
Right now though, it's just before 10am on Saturday here. Time to make a fresh pot of coffee and set the table for breakfast with the Young Master.
The Grand Duchess left for a two-week visit to Indonesia yesterday, where she'll be leading a pedagogy clinic, for want of a better description, and building relationships with faculty at the university where she has been invited to mentor. She'll eventually make it to Jogjakarta after a lengthy trip via Frankfurt and Singapore. I can't seem to recall, though, that she has ever mentioned the name of the university for all of the planning and excitement of recent months.
Funny how certain key details like that can sometimes get lost in the shuffle of life.
Sonja checked in via text from Germany early today and shared a photo of her own coffee and small breakfast. I have sadly forgotten what that's called in German beyond the more general Fruehstuck. Suffice to say, it looked pretty good for airport fare. She'll also have enough time to go into the city for a quick walkabout, the lucky duck.
But enough mindless prattle! Time for some fresh coffee of my own and breakfast with Paul.
-- Stokes
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