Snow--here it comes

It's snowing. The weather guys are very excited--could be as much as ten inches. Yesterday I was wishing for global warming as the prairie wind blew into the University of Minnesota. Students were bundled up in multiple layers, watch caps and scarves. The sun was shining and everything looked deceptively lovely from the inside of Andersen Library. But that walk to the parking lot? Don't do it. Stay inside and read weather blogs.

Job loss cliches

What goes around comes around.

I hate to think that such a cliche could possibly be true. But take a look:

I fired or convinced to resign five people in my checkered career. Then I myself was "laid off."

And now Kit Hadley, who was ultimately responsible for my layoff, has herself been reorganized out of a job.

Comforting for maybe two seconds. But, since it's a cliche, pretty meaningless.

And only slightly better than "Some things were meant to be" or "You'd be really good at...."

Brrrr

It's cold--18 degress at 10 PM. We are so unused to this, thanks to our inability to live any other way than we do right now. I read that daffodils were blooming in late October around the Twin Cities. They were clearly confused. Today's temps will certainly discourage any more of that behavior.