A few quick thoughts

1. Neisha Thai Restaurant last night was very good.

2. Went to a lecture this morning on the role of women in Caesaria in the 4, 5, and 6th centuries. I found it a little disappointing because the lecturer, Kenneth Holsum, who has led a major dig in Caesaria and teaches at U. Md., is a very dry speaker, and he went on for over an hour although he did not have that much to say on the subject. He started by saying that nothing has been published on women in Byzantine Caesaria; by the time he was finished, I knew why. There is surprisingly little to say, particularly if you want to divide the roles played by Christian, Jewish and Samaritan women. Holsum would simply extrapolate and guess a little too much. Not that it was a waste of time, and not that nothing of interest was said, but for a lecture on this particular subject, I don't think he got very far.

3. Last month, as you may recall, I read Raphael Patai's "The Seed of Abraham". Why is it that, today, I could not tell you one thing in it?

4. How are they allowing the Nats/Padres game to continue through this rain? It wouldn't be such a bad call, if the Nats were winning, but they are not.