In point of fact the Puritans, at least some of whom where the ideological ancestors of the Christian right, came to this country in part to escape the British practice of Christmas.

And because they were such pains-in-the-asses that it was heavily implied they get the hell out or they will learn what it really was to be persecuted...

Oddly that part gets left out at thanksgiving, too.

Much sympathy to Billytea.

Timelies,

My condolences to billytea.

Oddly that part gets left out at thanksgiving, too.

Not odd at all. They're family. One always tries to gloss over family weirdness during the holidays.

And because they were such pains-in-the-asses that it was heavily implied they get the hell out or they will learn what it really was to be persecuted...

Speaking as a liberal American Buffista, we'd better hope with all our might that nobody ever starts trying to persecute people for being pains in the ass. ijs...

Good Morning!

I woke up to a beautifully sunny vacation day and almost 8 inches of snow! Lovely.

I will not look at my school bag full of papers to grade and exams to write.

Kristin, you have snow to look at, why would you ever choose to look at your school bag instead?

Because sunlight on snow can cause piercing pain if you stare at it too long?

We've got about one inch of snow here.

I was supposed to go back to DC today, but I'm still feeling kind of sick, so I'm waiting until tomorrow.

I just checked my grades online. I got an A in both classes that have grades posted so far. The third professor hasn't posted grades yet, but I'm pretty sure I got a B.

Nilly, I thought of you this morning, and yesterday morning, as well. Yesterday, I was up long before dawn. When the sky began to lighten, I still didn't know it had started to snow. When I went to refill my coffee, I saw it, and wished you could be here. This morning, it is a sterotypical New England winter wonderland outside my windows. The snow even stuck to the wooden grids on the outside of the windows, the way it would on a cliche-ridden TV show in a winter setting. It's just gorgeous. I don't have sound hooked up on my PC, but there's a video here: [link] if you look down just a little bit, under the heading "weather" you'll see a headline about the storm slamming Massachusetts, and then a link that reads "a messy commute" (it's a javascript link, so I can't link directly) next to an icon of a video camera. It shows the snow plows and reporters presumably interviewing people about how tought the driving is, but I also saw a few seconds of trees blowing in the snow, etc.

I have to start my turkey soup from my Christmas left-overs, so we can have a nice, warm supper, tonight. I wish I had ingredients to make bread.

A Bronzer friend is flying in from Northern Ireland to Boston, today (it's Catriona, for the bi-boardal amongst us). She's going on a ski holiday in New Hampshire, and will be in Boston for a few hours next Sunday. I hope to meet up with her. She called me last night. As is typical, I was in tears, to have her be so real that I could finally hear her voice (and lovely accent, too).