Adventures in Refrigeration

Just after Thanksgiving, our refrigerator stopped working. The freezer had never worked all that well, but after noticing a stench that wouldn't go away, we discovered that the entire thing had broken. While we waited for them to fix it, we started storing our food on the back porch and inside our grill (see photos). It was an amusing experience to go out on the back porch in my pjs, open the grill, and take out my yogurt, but inconvenient none-the-less, considering the sub-zero temperatures.

Finally, we got a mini-fridge, but since we were leaving for Christmas break soon, we ended up just eating out a lot. Over break, our landlord said it had been fixed. We started to use it again only to discover that it had reverted to its old ways. At long last, a day later, we received a brand spanking new fridge. And we all lived happily ever after with our cold food!

Finals Week!

The last few weeks of the term were pretty crazy. My finals week basically consisted of me getting up in the morning, working every minute all day, and going to bed late at night. I had several papers and presentations to do, and for some reason volunteered to be the final editor of the paper for most of them. (Never again!) I eventually got through it day by day, then took the weekend to relax a bit before coming home for break. I was originally going to drive home, but the swath of geography I had to drive through suffered a snow storm that weekend, so I ended up flying home instead. I was so glad to be done!

The Fist of Winter Hits - Hard!

These photos and videos are from before my Christmas break, but the theme applies even more now. We had a huge snowstorm just after New Years, and then in the past week or so, we have gone into a deep freeze, along with much of the country. We got even more snow yesterday and today, which makes for fun walking to school at 8:30 am. :-)



This is me in front of my house.

John on the street in front of my place.







My car, buried in snow.

First Snow of the Year

I took a little video of the first snow of the year. This was back right after Thanksgiving out my bedroom window, looking into our backyard.

Thanksgiving

Going home for Thanksgiving was great, as usual, but also too short, as usual! I spent some time at home and in Sperryville, and took a few photos in Little Washington and at my aunt and uncle's house. The camera didn't quite capture the beautiful colors well enough, so I tried to compensate using Picasa.