Now there's an event.

[fflo]

Apr. 15, May 20
“Read to the Library Dog”: Chelsea District Library. All beginning readers in grade 2 & under (accompanied by a parent or guardian) invited to read one-on-one for 10 minutes to a dog trained to act as if it’s listening. 3:30-5 p.m., CDL KidSpot, 221 S. Main, Chelsea. Free. Preregistration required. 475–8732.

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[paperkingdoms]

A friend posted a link to this on facebook: Nonjudgmental Greyhounds with the commentary that she'd like a nonjudgemental greyhound to come watch her write her dissertation.

And you're right, of course. I'm not sure why this sent me to a melancholy place; I haven't been spending so much time there lately.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Now somehow I feel sad, thinking of the contrast between (the) nonjudgmental greyhounds and (the) judgmental (and/or absent) humans.

[paperkingdoms]

Ah, but see, dissertation writing is so fundamentally something one does on one's own that the idea of a nonjudgmental greyound companion for writing seems lovely and warm.

[And said person *does* actually have a rather hostile committee. So.]

But somehow *that* frame made it All Better for me, and kiddos reading to said dogs is just an extension of that. Hrm. Methinks we need more unambiguous warm fuzzies todya.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Remembering how we're not engaged in semi-hostile dissertating can't hurt! ;)

[paperkingdoms]

SO TRUE.