Snow day number 1! What a weird weekend. We spent Thursday through Sunday at the annual conference of the Society for Music Theory in Minneapolis. That's always a little surreal: several days in another city, living in a hotel and eating mostly from restaurants, pretending for a few days that the world revolves around music theory. Then you come back home to normal life and go right back to teaching. Except that this time we came back to a snow-covered landscape after what a guy from Western Massachusetts Electric Co. called "the largest and most destructive storm in our history" (which as I recall goes back to the 1800s). The destruction wasn't so much from the volume of snow as from the fact that it was wet, and fell on many trees with leaves still on them, so there are trees down all over and very few people have power. We slept with coats and hats on, and I'm posting now from my office on campus to avoid our 38-degree house. Needless to say, classes were cancelled today. Though the campus is mostly clear and has power, they might not clear the roads and restore power to the area soon enough for us to go back to the classroom tomorrow. We'll see... Nate and Claire, I don't even want to hear what the weather's like where you are.