This time last week there were several inches of snow on the ground. Today, not so much. It's 81 just at the moment. And, no, I'm still not happy with this whole daylight savings time thing, thank you very much...
Can't remember where I heard this, but it was an ad (public service announcement, I guess) about ways to pay for college, stressing a number of options that did not involve high-interest student loans. Can I get an "amen" for that... Srsly, I'm glad to see some sanity being applied to the topic. I remember sitting in the Durham library sometime in the late 90s, when I was still (around 15 years after graduating) dealing with paying off my loans, and hearing a counselor blithely telling some kid that it didn't matter how much the school he was interested in would cost because there were plenty of loans available. In my head I was screaming "nooooooo!" and if I could've thought of a way of butting in on the conversation that wouldn't have made me look like a deranged person, I'd have urged the kid not to listen. Then again, if anyone had told in 1980 that I'd still be paying off college loans in 1997 I'd have thought they were nuts. Still, even though it may have taken an enormous financial meltdown to bring it about, like I said, it's nice to see some long-range thinking at work.