A return to school, blogging & health

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After 4 sunny days in a row, today we got a LOT of snow. It stopped a few hours ago, which is too bad since I may or may not of had my fingers crossed for getting my night class canceled…

Unfortunately I spent the weekend sick & feeling pretty terrible. [Although I'm doing a bit better today.]

Things I did this weekend:
- blow my nose [x 10000]
- whined about how sore my nose is
- stared at the computer screen
- drank tea [x 10000]
- did 1 word search & 2 sudoku puzzles
- thought about the homework I should be doing
- daydreamed about Egypt
- showered
- watched The Wire

I did do some knitting & finished another hat!

I also finally get us renter’s insurance – something we’d been talking about for awhile, but had never gotten around to doing. Friday night, our friend’s apartment was broken into & his laptop & tv were stolen. Break-ins are unfortunately all too common in Ypsi & I feel good knowing for $20 a month we have $15,000 in coverage.

This afternoon I turned in another funding application. I’ve now applied to do different places that each offer $5,000 & I only need $4,000. Hopefully one/both of them come through but, if not, I already bought the ticket & there’s no way I wouldn’t go now.

Forbes did an “America’s 20 Most Miserable Cities” list that Flint and Detroit are of course on. Less of a bummer is this list by CNN which names Detroit as the second most affordable city to buy a house in the United States! I’ve been thinking lately that if we stay in the US, I’d like to stay in Ypsilanti or Detroit. Strange as it may be, I feel most comfortable there or abroad.

Here’s a silly music video that gives quite a good description of what archivists do:

I’ve been enamored with the website Information is Beautiful lately. So many wonderful & informative visualizations and info graphics.
For example, here’s the most effective male photos at okcupid.com: