Today is Manhattenhenge!

It is "wear pajamas to school" day. Oscar is singing Queen.

...playing the Borodin _Nocturne_ or _Notturno_ or whatever you call it, from the second string quartet. I'm playing first; I play second so often that I'm having to practice up in the stratosphere to stay in tune again ( Read more... )

So new student says, "Two weeks ago math totally owned me. And now I'm fine because I booked a tutor."

He *drew a graph* to illustrate this. Heh.

I am so ready for spring. At home I'd be knee-deep in wildflowers ( Read more... )

(must jot these down before I forget them)

"Right right right right right, it's *prudentially* valuable."

"But I don't *care* about Nova Scotia."

I really have absolutely no idea how to feel about the Cardinals and Steelers in the Superbowl ( Read more... )

Oscar's alternating between three songs:

"Put On Your Sunday Clothes"

"An die Freude" (his German is not so good)

(thank Wall-E for both of these)

and this.

When J is giggling it is a good sign that someone in the public sphere has done something silly. The battery pack J just bought has emblazoned across the top:

ELECTRON RETENTION TECHNOLOGY

In other words, batteries!

Ice tonight, therefore cancelled party, therefore we got and decorated a Christmas tree from the spot around the corner, since we didn't have to drive in the ice to get it if we went at 4, before the snow or the ice actually hit. Walking to school should be miserable tomorrow ( Read more... )