Hiya! Life has been crazy and then got crazier. Hence the lack of update-ness. For instance, this week:

Monday: massive power outage at work, so I didn't have to go in
Tuesday: Scrambling to make up for missing Monday in my preparations for students returning to campus and then a random earthquake! Which was tiny by the time it got near me ( ( Read more... )

We had another snow day today because the streets are still in rather a mess (oh, D.C., with your not knowing how to deal with snow), and we've got another snow day tomorrow because there's another storm expected to dump a further 10 to 20 inches of snow on us ( Read more... )

Dude, it is raining out one window but not the other and it is also sunny out both windows. Craaaaaazy.

I woke up today and was like, "Taxes! *flails*" Which is better than remembering on April 14, but still. I've sort of vaguely been remembering them for the past three months, but haven't actually done them. I usually do them during spring ( Read more... )

The weather continues crazily. Sunday was nearly 70, Monday was in the 60s, and Tuesday (when I brought my camera to take pictures of the crocuses at work) was back down in the mid-40s. Tuesday was also cloudy and thus my beloved crocuses were all shivered up against the inclement weather. Wednesday's a school day (and it was in the upper 50s), ( Read more... )

I found the local post office today! And it's open Saturdays! This is exciting. Also, there were nice people there. I asked one woman if she had a pen I could borrow (because there were none on the counter and the only one I had was purple, which is generally frowned on for anything but frivolous notes) and she very snippily turned me down, but ( Read more... )

I am baking pumpkin bread and it smells sooooo good! :D ( Read more... )

In more fun weather news, we now have an "excessive heat warning". So it'll be, like, 98-100 over the weekend and the beginning of next week.

But this morning I woke up and opened my curtains and it's foggy. And it's 78 degrees. This does not compute. I always thought fog was cool (in the literal sense, though figuratively, too ( Read more... )

Tornado warning, ZOMG. *whimpers and hides*