'Tis the Season

For hibernation.

(Seriously…how can one animal sleep so much?)

Garrison Keelor says that we winter to reset our body clocks in some scientific sense.  People who live in warm places have no idea what they are missing, because everyone around them is exactly the same.

The additional layer of fat has begun to make it's way into my heart (and onto my thighs).  Today, I took a picture of a stranger's winter body.  As if the bloated belly and stretch marks and a camera phone wouldn't be enough, t had the pleasure of standing behind the camera to assist this process.  For the love of dignity, please don't post that on Facebook.

I had a student who may have caught the same disease.  She was shocked yesterday at my announcement that it was the next to last class of the semester.  Later, she was shocked to learn that she was attending a college that only offered associate degrees.  After three semesters, I don't know if there is any hope.