And then, the busy season returns to the Serengeti

The above should be prefaced with, "in the voice of a nature documentary announcer." It has definitely become the part of the semester with much less free time, when I can no longer do useful-but-not-time-critical work in lab. In less than two weeks, my first major project is due (computer modeling, with paper and presentation). In that time span, three days are completely burned by visitors from a Firm that Sponsors Our Research. Also, the day the project is due, a bunch of us are leaving on a week-long consulting trip, so we need to also schedule in equipment preparation time for the trip (building several hundred sensors). It doesn't look like it will be a fun period. So of course, I'm blogging about it rather than working; same pattern as last semester.

Anyway, the picture below is meant to demonstrate that the middle-school-inspired sixties and seventies architecture of UW can be made slightly more palatable by hiding it behind trees and covering it up with snow.



Of course, it also demonstrates the re-frozen slush that is now common on many walking surfaces.

Tool tool tool.