1. Poster sessions are literally science fair for grown-ups. There's a big hall with a bunch of posters up on boards, and their makers stand by them and talk about their project to everyone who comes by. This seems like a much more sensible way to run a conference than the humanities version, where people get up on stage and read a paper they ( Read more... )

It's been overshadowed, as usual, by what the same storm system's doing to the east coast, but Nashville got its biggest snowstorm in almost fifteen years yesterday. We topped out at eight inches. It snowed from about 7 AM to after 9 PM, which I don't remember ever seeing down here. It was quite impressive ( Read more... )

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Well, thank you, Mother Nature. Instead of the 5" of plowable snow I was promised, you gave me half an inch of unmelting ice, some sleet on top, and maybe snow to follow, though frankly they've been saying that for a while and it's still a sleetfest/freezing rain fiesta at my house. That's just great. I'm having visions of '94 ( Read more... )

I made it to the maintenance dose of my allergy shots yesterday! Woooo ( Read more... )

Last Friday, I went to Cheekwood to see the 100,000 tulips they have blooming. It was...a lot like going to the tulip festival outside Seattle, actually, but that's a good thing! They were purty ( Read more... )

castalianspring and I went out to Radnor Lake today and tromped through the woods (along with, apparently, most of Nashville). I didn't take many pictures, but I liked these two:

( Redbuds )

( Mostly cherry trees )

It's December, which means it's time for the Christmas tree to come out!

( The usual bird-bedecked extravaganza )

I've packed a year's worth of culture into one weekend! (Well, maybe a month's.)

Last night I went to see Bruce Munroe's "Light" exhibit at Cheekwood. I don't know that it was the greatest thing ever, but it was certainly pretty to see the grounds all lit up with fantastical formations of LEDs ( Read more... )