I'm once again running into the really annoying problem where the university computer system does all sorts of nonsensical things when it's asked to deal with names that include punctuation. I apparently have a very Irish bunch of students this semester, because I have five names like O'Malley and O'Brian, and each time I get a class list from different parts of the computer system, some of them have the apostrophe and others don't, with no pattern at all as to which ones have it where. So when I'm transferring stuff from one list to another, they're all alphabetized differently, so I have to do it all by hand rather than cutting and pasting the column. I've also got a few students with Al-something names that have a hyphen on some lists, a space on others, and nothing on others.
'The Killer In Me'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
TAKE THAT GROWN UP POLICE!
Woot! Isn't that satisfying?
I am learning a lot of stuff this week. Most of which won't make it to the page, but which is good to have in my head. But I'm tired.
That hat is VERY Shrifty and you do indeed need it.
I sensed your agreement from the future and ordered it last night!
I'm working from home this morning until the windchill is a little less brutal.
There's a wang museum.
There's a what now?
Katie says there's a penis museum. She listed that on the menu of things we might like to do.
I finally broke down and bought a proper winter coat yesterday (I was wearing lots of layers until now) so I tested it out by going onto the ice of Lake Michigan to take pictures in the -15 windchill. I was nice and warm.
You are crazy. I was colder this morning than even the -16 days for some reason. There is crazy wind out there.
But yay on new coat. I got one in the post holiday sales and it is awesome.
I'm already tired of the jokes about Houston not being able to handle cold weather. All of the overpasses for all of the freeways are iced over. It's dangerous to drive out there.
Laura, I'll be in Omaha the end of May/beginning of June.
I wish I was hardy enough to go out and take pictures in this weather. The lake looks amazing.
It's gotten warmer but the wind's picked up. I found myself wishing for long underwear on my walk home for the Heartland Cafe just now.
I just walked partway though all the ice chunks piled up near the shore: [link]
Can you tell the smooth stuff beyond the ice chunks is more ice?