I’m currently reading this random book (the one that came in the mail instead of my opera textbook). It’s called “Mismapping the Underworld” and it’s about Dante’s Divine Comedy and it turns out to be pretty interesting…though it’s really like scholarly and has lots of footnotes and stuff.

The seller told me it was a mistake (and this book was from a library sale! You were right!) But anyway, she’s sending the opera book immediately and including a packing label so I can send her back the Dante book. All is well!!

Regarding all the recent blogitation:

Is there a correlation between copious amounts of frozen precipitation and increased blogging activity? I believe so. I’m now working on a hockey stick graph that shows a relationship between finger calories expended/megabytes posted and decreasing temperatures/increasing atmospheric moisture in NC/VA/DC. There must be some sort of “forcing” cyclical, wherein cabin fever weather causes increased blogging, which, in turn, leads to more severe winter weather, and then more blogging, setting up a downward spiraling, localized, runaway climate change event. I think it is time to set up “blogging offset credits” to prevent NC from entering another ice age.

I await my Nobel prize nomination.

Thank you for all the recent posts, Tricia!