I got more than a little carried away while drafting my recent post for Vary the Line, so I'm going to point all y'all there for the day. (*looks at the clock and winces* -- I was reading the paper over supper, and while it was on the late side, the evening wasn't that far along. So now I shall have to scramble through what I can get through of the to-dos I'd meant to have done by an hour ago -- but that's all right. I was having enough of an accident-plagued day that staying on the couch might have been the safest thing for everything else in my vicinity.)

In other news, it is cold enough here in Nashville that the contractor working on my house spent his morning moving his chickens to his basement ("they'd be fine outside, except that their water gets frozen"), and the public schools will be closed tomorrow. I am admittedly nonplussed about / not wholly on board with the latter (a decade split between Chicago and Detroit will do that to a gal -- closing for icy roads, yes, but cold? huh? (*)), but on a purely selfish note, it'll be nice for me, because I have to run a bunch of errands tomorrow and not getting mired in school zones/traffic will be a plus.

(* That said, apparently it was cold enough in Chicago this week to cancel parts of Kuviasungnerk. I don't remember that happening when I was a student, but I also only participated one year out of four -- I don't like snow or mornings myself, but I've done stupider things than pushups in the snow for free food and bragging rights.

And, to be fair, it sounds like physical conditions inside Metro Nashville schools (as reported in some of the comments) are crummy enough that there might be liability issues. (The BYM: "It would make sense to close if it costs more to heat the schools to 65 degrees now than to cool them down to 75 degrees in June -- but that's not what's being argued, is it.") And that points toward a whole 'nother level of how to squeeze money from stones that needs to be addressed, but that's outside the scope of this entry/blog. Later, loves.