Tidbits

1. First, brilliant stuff (that I, of course really happen to agree with!) from Annie. (This one from a few weeks ago was good too).

2. Anyone hankering for some good winter fun in Lietuva? SAS published its winter specials

3. I can't remember what I was going to put here. It was interesting though, I promise. I'll add when I remember... ah yes, here it is:

"In 1900, The British Medical Journal reported that peasants of the Pskov region in northwestern Russia “adopt the economical expedient” of spending one-half of the year in sleep: “At the first fall of snow the whole family gathers round the stove, lies down, ceases to wrestle with the problems of human existence, and quietly goes to sleep. Once a day every one wakes up to eat a piece of hard bread. ... The members of the family take it in turn to watch and keep the fire alight. After six months of this reposeful existence the family wakes up, shakes itself” and “goes out to see if the grass is growing.” (from NYT).

So there, I'm not weird for feeling like death or sleep are the only logical approaches to this much darkness!