I was thinking that lists of things might make a good blog category. I think that lists are an underappreciated literary genre. They are so common, so personal, so localized that they have little relevance to anyone but the author. A perfect topic for a weblog!

I was thinking about this as I was driving into town to spend time at my classroom on a sunny Saturday morning. Teaching school is not a 40 hour a week job for me, or anyone else that I know. I am particularly inefficient because I waste so much time doing unnecessary things like this blog entry, instead of boring but necessary chores like grading student work, that I get little done during my regular work hours. While I was thinking about this lists category idea I drove by some interesting things to photograph:

  • Snow cairns lined up along Sheep Creek Road that some creative person made from the chunks pushed into berms by graders that cleared the hard pack.
  • A bunch of ROTC soldiers crouched down in a circle at the base of the University sled hill, aiming weapons outward while children sledded nearby.
  • An Eskimo woman dressed in a kuspuk waiting for a bus on Geist Rd., holding a long piece of baleen.

The snow chunks will still be there for a while, I hope. I might actually take that picture.