So, here in Alba, we don’t get a Thanksgiving break, of course, but we do get an entire week’s worth of Reading Days. Mine got off to a running start with a visit from Katelyn “Kinky” Finley, whose reading week was just finishing. She arrived on Thursday evening. On Friday, I got up at 5:00 to cram for my chemistry test, and Katelyn got up too - for a slightly more fun reason; she walked to the gorgeous East Sands to see the sun rise. She then took the bus to Edinburgh for the day. But when she came back that night, I had finished both assignments and was ready to spend some time studying the properties of R-OH (organic has that effect on me - being incredibly bored and distraught while reading phrases like “the
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