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 We're getting desperately close to reaching the halfway point of my last semester. It's been a pleasant semester so far, and my students have been (generally) on their best behavior. I even received an initial inquiry from a university press, which, no matter how it plays itself out, was great news.

Thanks to Matt Dunigan for loaning me his number sixteen as part of my countdown to retirement. Dunigan was born in Lakewood, Ohio, which I supposed I've driven by dozens of times on my drives from Vermont to Indiana over the years. He attended Louisiana Tech, for heading north (mainly) to play for a number of CFL teams: Edmonton Eskimos, BC Lions, Toronto Argonauts, Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Birmingham Barracudas (during that ill-fated CFL expansion into the states), and Hamilton Tiger-Cats. He is a two time Grey Cup Champion, winning once with Edmonton and once with Toronto, and was elected into the CFL Hall of Fame (I'll have to check out his plaque on this summer's trip to Hamilton) in 2006. He's also served as a studio analyst on CFL broadcasts.