An Everyday Menagerie
Sun Dog
If you look really, really closely in the above picture, you can see a tiny fragment of rainbow in the far left side. I was driving to Lake Michigan the weekend before last and noticed two rainbow fragments in the sky at the wrong angle and called the weather nerd boyfriend who explained that this is called a “Sun dog”, which is created when light from the sun goes though ice crystals in high clouds. I thought that was interesting enough to pass on, and hopefully other nerds appreciate.
Here is a wikipedia link with better pictures and explanations: Sun dogs.
So with regards to school, I currently have three separate group projects happening right now. I’ve got the Washtenaw County Historical Society thing for 501, a Google Books project for 500, and a Preservation Needs Assessment for the Museum of Anthropology’s Asian scroll collection.
It’s a little overwhelming. Everything will get done, and it will be done well, but I’m going to be operating in high gear until the end of the semester.
At least the weather is going to be crappy all weekend – I won’t be tempted to go outside and blow off the afternoons. We’ve got thunderstorms and snow showers through Monday night woohooooo. Here’s a picture from the dusing of snow we got last weekend:
Also, I joined the Institute for Civility in Government. My friend’s dad is a co-founder, so I’ve been hearing about it for a while, and after the insanity of this last election, I felt moved to join. Palin had her aggressive and passive uncivil moments – from spreading lies about Obama “pal-ing around with terrorists” to not bothering to correct people when they made untrue accusations. And, after living in Texas for so long where I had to put up with all of Tom Delay’s nonsense, I think civility is something very undervalued in this country today. I’m a fan of the masters of rhetoric – I love reading things like Cicero for fun – and I think the world could use a little more civility.
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