It's beautiful outside!

Beautiful to look at, anyway. Everything's pretty and white, so I didn't mind so much that my bike was slipping all over on my inexplicably unplowed road. Actually, it reminded me of mountain biking with Nate in the LA area a few years ago: on steep hills I often stand up to get more power, but that reduces the weight on the back tire and you slip and slide and go nowhere... But honestly, I'm happy to have a "real" winter for once in southern Indiana, cold, snow, and all.

Things are going well for me right now: a week and a half ago I gave my first ever conference presentation, in Florida, and it went well; classes are generally going well, though I'm too busy (I don't think I can keep the second job next year), almost every day Barack Obama does something that impresses me, plus I'm getting married (eventually). Let's hope this continues!

By way of proving my continuing existence, here are a few photos from break. They're from the Canadian side of Lake Erie, where the lake clearly had been frozen over but was not any more. When we visited, it was a bunch of shards of ice, arranged in fascinating patterns, heaving on the waves.







Now back to work preparing lessons for the week...