melanistic

When I read that article, I read that word as "melantastic", like fantastic, and I thought it was a great way to describe it! I still like it better.

I am at work. I have no clue why, but here I am.

Sometimes it's better to be doing something rather than nothing. At least this way, if you have to take time off, you'll have a couple work-tasks moved along.

OMG, it is disgusting outside here. I wish it were colder! Wintry mix is the worst.

Wintry mix is the worst.

It really is.

I think today is going to be a nap day. Work this week has been good, but I'm just extra exhausted and I realized that yesterday I walked a lot more than I have in the last week. Hopefully I can juggle my work after my current conference call to take a 2 hour break.

Man, I wish I could take a nap day today.

We've been short-staffed all week because the Lower School Librarian -- the one who has multiple classes of small children in the library every day -- is home sick with something nasty, so my director and I have been covering her classes, and I've had a bunch of my own too, so I've been in early every day and running all over the school. Now the computer in the story room (where we hold Lower School classes) isn't working, and I just found out we're scheduled to have a fire drill today, right in the middle of my Kindergarten class. Surely that will go super smoothly, right?

Newborn puppies.

We are a little short-staffed here due to a rash of illness.

There's a lot of slush UNDER over a foot of snow. It's heavy. And it will refreeze tonight. And there's 2-4" more coming. And we've got to do the street at some point.

I don't know that my car is going anywhere before sunday at this point. But it is cleared off and I've got a whole parking space ahead of me!

My shoulders are complaining already.

Horses playing in the snow at Sagamore Farm in Glyndon, Maryland. (I visited there in the 70s and got to see whichever son of Native Dancer was at stud there at the time. Cannot recall his name, but he was a pretty gray.)