Highlights from the 2014 Sony World Photography Awards shortlist. Nicely distracting.

Oh dear, take care everyone and keep warm if you can!

Ditto!

I am glad your mother is feeling better, Dana, and for the Netflix

Sox, how many more (sizable) branches does the tree have to drop?

I am not in a snowy place but it is unexpectedly cold here (below freezing) and I was not appropriately clothed/did not pack right. Also, as of Yesterday I FINALLY felt ok, throat was not sore, etc...and then started coughing and this morning I am back to sick (drippy nose, sore throat). I think I now have a DIFFERENT sickness. Not pleased. Wtf body.

Maybe that's part of the AU?

I'm glad your mother's feeling better, Dana.

Warmth~ma for those who need it. Brrrrr!

I think all school districts should cancel school like this: [link]

Not bad voices.

Yay for good rest for Dana's mom.

May Consuela's dad get some relief today.

Gorgeous pictures. Alas, no listening to the school people, yet.

OK. Wrote my answers to the questions about working at a Jesuit university, got people to cover my classes for today, and paid some guys with a snowblower $10 to clear out the street around my car so that I'll be able to get to work tomorrow. Next task, prep slides for the talk I'm giving as part of the on-campus interview I have next week.

Good on you.

I set a time to leave for classes, missed it due to faffing around with duke fundraising stuff. Scrambled like mad to get here, then spent time yapping with the office folks, still got into my classroom/chapel early enough to disrupt the previous class, set everything up and...now have twenty minutes to kill. Oops.

I was all worried about doing the setup without the SO while he's trying, but it was super easy. Oh well, thank goodness for internet.

I'm currently wondering if I can figure out how to run the snowblower, because the neighbor who usually does it is at work today. I shoveled the steps and the walk, but having to snowblow after a day at work seems like adding insult to injury.

But since govt email is up I'm still getting work questions and have to join a brain-hurtin' thinky call in 5 minutes.

Yeah, I had an hour long call with my boss earlier (our normal weekly update), and at one point I just had to say, "I think I know something about this that I will know in my office but can't remember in my living room...."

Stay warm, people! Not you, Laura, you stay cool.

Ha! I listened to the school closing video and immediately posted it to a friend of mine who is principal of a school in the Adirondacks. His school is remote and K-12. The graduating class that he and my nephew shared was 21 students. Yet they still manage to field teams in most sports because all kids participate in everything. Have a ski mountain right behind the school.

Sorry for the reminiscing; I sometimes wonder if I should have raised the boys in that kind of environment. But then I remember that parents there wonder if they should have raised their kids in an environment with access to more of what we take for granted.

Well done, productive people! I am a bit of a slacker today. I guess I should get back to it. Ugh.