Just came in from a four mile walk in what can only be described as a “return to sanity” temperatures. No more, as someone said, cryogenics for the living. It was a delightful, shorts and t-shirt, pre-storm, cloudy 65 degrees. And talking about sanity, I got an e-mail yesterday from a professor at an eastern [...]
Now some people may be upset with me and my words. Personally, emulating Oscar the Grouch just isn’t my style. At the same time, I don’t like to play it safe by playing dead. I’m just not shy about a dislike or disagreement or discomfort, especially when I feel it. If that’s grumpy, so be [...]
Time to be a cold grump! I admit it. And, it has nothing to do with the temperatures outside. Well, the economy has done it. It’s pushed my campus over the edge, or, at least, it is offered as the excuse. True, on my campus, like most campuses, it’s been crunch time. Our budget [...]
A “brrrrrrrry” good morning. I just came in from getting the newspaper and I my frozen face is as Carolina blue as my UNC scrubbies. My hands are so cold that the hot cup off coffee I’m tightly holding to thaw out board-like fingers almost turned to coffee slush. The temperature here in supposed warm [...]
