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Ok, like most of you know I have a dog named Spock. He is 9 years old and he is probably my best friend. He has been with me through good times and bad and I love him so much. I give him raw food so I make his food myself and I know every single ingredient, nothing he dosen't need in it, just the vitamins and proteins he needs, also it tastes yummy. I have a pretty big garden, closed so he can stay outside with no worries, I take him for walks (could do that a bit more often though) and take him ...

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One thing I've noticed here, is that canceling a class is a good thing. And here, it's better to withdraw than have a bad grade. I mean it, three people dropped out of my math class just this morning! All because the last test we took, they got such low scores. Someone had an 8%! But what's so funny is he's one of the ones who stayed! But yes, I was so surprised when I came in to my class, where usually there's four people at my table is now one. Me! I admit, I was so lonely! ...

I have always preferred shopping for books at second-hand book stores because primarily they are a whole lot cheaper and I like trading in my old books which I have already read for store credit to buy new books, and because they always use to be a great source for getting classics, in addition to other harder to find, more obscure, or simply older books which are simply no longer behind produced anymore.

But I have lately noticed a changing trend in second-hand book store, at least ...

What's the answer to my birth?
When's the time to pierce the earth?

Where's the hand to hold the spade?
At whose feet are empires laid?

Who's the man to dig my grave?
Which is monarch, which the slave?

Last night I was teaching in a school a few miles away from where I live, but before I started I had to drop off some paperwork at one of our administrative centres in the south of Coventry - the other side of the city.

I dutifully studied the map, it's always a little urban adventure to try to navigate around unfamiliar roads to a schedule, and I like to find new routes and see new places. So all I had to do was to cycle south and join the A45 and travel west towards my teaching ...