Scenes from lunch

My first honest-to-goodness picnic with myself all year.

That's sunlight glowing through my bag of chips.

The students have suddenly reappeared. Hadn't seen them around since, oh, mid-October.

And while these guys pursue their undergraduate degrees with piles of papers and deadlines and required reading (suckers!) (but I support and admire you greatly), I found it only appropriate to appreciate mine, reading the non-required, like the selected writings of Kurt Vonnegut.

"Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only rule that I know of, babies -- 'God damn it, you've got to be kind.'" (from God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater)