Today was the much-anticipated Winter Visit Day at Boston University, and so K1 and her parents made our way into Boston for the day. Follow me below the orange snowbank after a word from our sponsor...
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Once a year, BU holds a daylong Visit Day for prospective applicants to tour the school, hear from current students and faculty, and check out the dining center. We booked this several months ago as it fills up every year, and when I checked the weather this morning knew we were going to be cold:
It was a dry, bracing cold. The kind that makes your face hurt and your eyes water (and then freeze tears on your cheeks). And yet, it was a warm, wonderful day spent listening and learning, exploring and finding out that yes, even at a large university (this year's freshman class numbers 3700) you can find a small-school atmosphere.
I have no idea if K1 will decide BU is "her" school. She's qualified to be there, but the college tour circuit has just begun. It was a good day, however. My fitbit tells me we walked a bit under 4.5 miles today, most of it outside. I know many of us are sick of snow, of cold, of winter. I too am ready for spring. But for a few hours today, I didn't mind the cold because the smile of a child contemplating their future is extraordinarily warm.
Those 4.5 miles coupled with having to be up at stupid o'clock because Boston traffic is still messed up with subway and commuter rail lines either not running or massively delayed/crowded and cars clogging still-narrow roads with poor sightlines from tall snowbanks means that I am a very tired tove, and won't be able to stick around long tonight in the comments. Please peruse the three Tops, and then chat amongst yourselves as we do every night.
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From indycam:
A top cautionary comment re: friendly fire, from Regina in a Sears Kit House. From rexymeteorite's A Note to Old Time Kossacks.
From ratcityreprobate:
Great comment by PvtJarHead in Laura Clawson's Veteran war reporter Bill O'Reilly saw combat from 1,200 miles away.
From themis:
Witty top comment by Mindful Nature, from LiberalCanuck's People; It's Cold Out. LOCK YOUR DOORS.
From Quilldriver:
A life-saving suggestion from AkaEnragedGoddess in LiberalCanuck's People diary about children who wander out in the cold and freeze to death.
From BeninSC:
In tonight's KTK I wrote about a local business owner exploring the idea of providing benefits for employees, contrasted with a Walmart pay raise for some very low-paid employees. The best analysis of Walmart's reasoning for the change was provided by arizonablue, in this fine comment.
And The Marti wrote a comment supporting those of us who live in ... politically BACKWARD areas, that I really appreciated.
From Yours Truly, brillig:
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