Beginning the working from home experiment.

Good luck with Snowpocalypse, Easterners! I feel guilty since we've had a very mild winter this year.

The only bulk place we have is Sam's Club. We only go there in dire cases. I wish we had a Costco.

Before the snow starts I am going to the food co-op. I am crazy, but I am hoping to find challah.

Imma stick with meerkatting. Also I'm going to recommend he just not do it, because it freaks me out. He's very quick and silent.

"Prariedogging" vs. "meerkatting"? This a cat people vs. dog people thing, isn't it?

Java, I know friends of mine who bring caseS of wine home to MA with them from Napa, since they can't get them shipped.

I vote prairiedogging. Meerkats huddle, but prairie dogs pop up at random out of many different burrows.

Hmm, maybe I'll do Costco today, if I get myself moving enough to leave the house. I'm off for four days after a big project that practically drove me to a nervous breakdown finally wrapped.

This a cat people vs. dog people thing, isn't it?

Yes, because I can be characterised as either, and it would so definitely be the cat if you could choose.

Not snowing yet in my section of DC. Government is closing four hours early.

Pride/Prejudice by Ann Herendeen. Oh, it's a mashup, but no zombies. More accurately, a slashup.

Jane Austen's most popular novel has enthralled generations of readers, as proud Mr. Darcy meets his match in witty and prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet. But only now can the hidden story be told, of the two parallel loves that complicate this ideal romance: Darcy's controlling affection for the gentlemanlike Charles Bingley; and the sympathetic intimacy between Elizabeth and her more practical friend, Charlotte Lucas. Written in a comparable "bright and sparkling" style, Pride/Prejudice "fills the gaps" in Austen's story, daring to imagine the full truth suggested by the original. What is Darcy's real motivation for preventing Bingley's marriage to Elizabeth's beautiful and virtuous sister Jane? How can Darcy reconcile his desire for Elizabeth with his determination to save his friend from a similar entanglement? And what is the disturbing history behind Darcy's tortured relationship with his foster brother, George Wickham? Pride/Prejudice brings to light all the buried secrets, weaving a tale of intertwined passions that must be resolved through honesty and forgiveness, the humbling of pride and freedom from prejudice.

Catch the author. She's so smug. And not naked.

It looks like the federal government is closing early in anticipation of the snow (my DH's office follows the feds).

And my university is still monitoring the situation. (I don't actually have any official stuff scheduled today, so what I should be doing is the same whether the university is open or not, but I really want either an excuse to stay home or a reason for the office to be mostly empty so that I won't have to deal with officemates while trying to work.)