School is cancelled today because of the 8-12 inches of snow we're supposed to get, and even though I don't have any classes until tomorrow afternoon, that still means I am entitled to slack off and write a blog post! I'm hoping this week's blizzard is the final last stand of a winter that has brought unprecedented snowfall, bitterly cold temperatures, and has lasted entirely too long.

Whatever. I'm still get ridiculously excited when the snow piles up outside, and so here's the obligatory view-from-my-window shot:

The defining characteristic of this snowstorm is wind, which has been intense. So the tops of cars have very little snow on them, but there are two foot drifts piled up in various places. Other than walking over to Starbucks and having coffee (if I can convince a fellow snowbound East Sider to join me), I have no intention of wading through those drifts! I will be enjoying myself here:

To echo a phrase my mom uses, What else is new? Well, first there's this thing called thesis, which is now in the stages of being organized and researched and framed and reframed into a book:

My apartment still has evidence of a fun project (designed by the ever-lovely Taylor) that I participated in over wintersession that involved a massive, remotely-connected session of hitokara - karaoke sung alone. We were given a packet of sheet music, and then we had to film ourselves at home in front of a provided green screen singing both lead and backup vocals to Somebody to Love, by Queen:

It arrived on my studio desk like this:

It could not have been any cuter if it were addressed to the Spare Oom in the land of War Drobe. It contained this:

Freddie Mercury I am not, but I had a good time anyways! Taylor's final project was to splice all of us singing together into one music video, which was both highly entertaining and mortifying. I will not be sharing it with you.