Wintery Weekend

A nasty winter storm has been toying with the Chicagoland area for the last couple days, so Pats and I decided to do a girls' night last night. We cooked some tasty food and drank wine and cosied up under blankets as we watched Absolutely Fabulous and other assorted shows. It was fun and lazy and a good way to spend a wintery Saturday.

During a brief warm-up this afternoon I drove home in the rain and made it maybe an hour before the snow started again. They're predicting snow showers on and off all week and it's getting REALLY old. I know March is right around the corner, but DAMN it's taking its time.

So now, home today, grading to do as always. Laundry, the Oscars tonight. Watching "Bling'd" again on VH1 since I missed most of it the other night when it premiered. It's a brilliant documentary, allowing one to see these American rappers' consciousness change and keep changing the deeper they go into Sierra Leone.

Now that February is winding down, so too will all the excellent programming for Black History Month. It would be nice if these stories weren't just part of a theme during the shortest month of the year. Surely there is room throughout the year, and for lots of different peoples' stories. . . .