Here are three things I am glad about from today:

1.  As I was riding the bus into campus this morning around 9:00 I thougt I saw, flying high overhead, two robins.  I just caught their rusty undersides, and I wasn’t sure they were robins, as the sun was still low and the air had that red quality about it anyway.  But a block further along there was a tree that  was just covered in roosting robins!  A whole flock of them!  I know that some robins stay around all winter, but a whole flock?  Can I hope that means spring is on the way?

2.  In my 502 lecture (Cognitive Psychology) I realized it was OK that I didn’t read chapters 2 and 3 last night. I gambled and went to sleep last night without finishing the reading assignment, but I understood the lecture without having read the material. (Does this make me a risk-loving person?)   So I am not so far behind as I might have been, nor as lost.

3.  Driving home tonight the moon came up.  Did anyone else see that big orange moon coming over the horizon about 6:00 tonight?  It lit up the snowy fields I was driving through and was just beautiful. 

So, regardless of the fact it’s only 9 degrees outside now, and the windchill is well below zero, I have three things to be glad about. 

It’s Friday night and tomorrow I don’t have to go out in the cold.    Oh wait, that makes FOUR things I’m glad about!