On a more positive note...

[sarahmichelef]

I'm excited to be going to visit friends tomorrow, even if I might have to do a 2-hour drive solo with TRex (depends on if we get power back/wehther M feels like he will be able to get enough work done while we're there).  I was thinking I wanted some caffeine, and when I came to the faculty lounge to eat lunch there was not only free coffee (ok, there's always free coffee, but this was DECENT free coffee, as opposed to the crap that comes out of the machine in the kitchenette) but there were miniscones and minimuffins.  And I got to chat with a couple of friends (one from sociology, one from religious studies) that I hadn't seen since May or so.  And they were doing a raffle drawing but M didn't win anything - I was prepared to pretend to be him if he did win, and Jonathan was going to vouch that I was, in fact, allowed to do that.  ;^)