Wherein the author is unusually refreshed

The great figure.
In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I am sharing with you this photo of my shadow juxtaposed with a pile of spilled pickles on wet concrete. I hope it encourages you somehow to work pickles into your holiday festivities. Or, better yet, to find something ugly enough to be beautiful.

Hungry for it.
I risked lowering the temperature in my fridge yesterday to capture a photograph of this cliche. I also had to lay on the kitchen floor. But a good cliche is hard to find. So what if it was no cake walk? I'm annoyed by the fact that the accent mark on the e isn't working. O blogger. Yo

Now you see it.
I know it's only Tuesday, but I have a sense that if I make it through this afternoon and evening I'll be entering the home stretch of home stretches. I guess that's rather optimistic thinking for someone with a boatload of grading on the horizon, but so what.The university

A mess.
Don't you love it when you clean something over and over and over and over again, and it never looks any better, and then you clean it over and over and over again, and then miraculously it's 155% better than before? And as an unexpected bonus, you now have awe-inspiring biceps?

Matthew Guenette live at The University of Akron