Dog

Hark! The dogs howl! The sleetwinds blow;

The churchclocks knoll: the hours haste, 

I leave the dreaming world below.

~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

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I like dogs. Especially medium and big dogs. I really want a dog. I think that Leslie and I agreed that we will get a dog after I get tenure.

Leslie says I should name the dog tenure. I don't think I want to do that because we'd end up calling it "Tenny" for short. Then people would think we named our dog after Alfred Lord Tennyson. And that seems kind of pretentious.