Snow!

We've been hit by several snow storms, as has much of the rest of the country. While it's not so fun for us to shovel it, nor to try to drive on it when we don't have 4WD cars, Binsey is one happy puppy.

She really wanted to help Paul shovel...

So I brought her outside and she got right in there and told the snow where to go


And when the snow got out of line, she snuck up on it


Meanwhile, we're on week 3 of waiting for our HOA to approve our fence. It will be so nice to let Binsey run around off leash! And nice for us not to have to bundle up in our snow gear every time she needs to go out... Hopefully it'll come through soon!

Big Week!

This week Paul finished his first week at his new job! He's working for the local small business development center and we're excited about this opportunity! His commute is even shorter than mine - just 5 miles versus my 7 to campus. What a change from Chicago where we commuted 25 miles in bumper-to-bumper traffic taking an hour or more each way. It is so much nicer to be driving quickly past cow pastures and forests rather than sitting in that dense traffic.

On my end of things, I'm struggling to come up with an "interesting" and "feasible" master's paper topic since my previous master's thesis doesn't count here. Given that I have never done sociology research before, it's a challenge to come up with something new!