My faculty's library committee met this morning. Still had no formal news to tell them about the money situation. The chair had heard rumors that we were getting more money - but I knew nothing. All very difficult and painful but I survived. Not much fun.

On a much more cheerful note we had our library christmas buffet over lunch. Plenty to eat, games to be played, raffles to be drawn.

I'd submitted my photo for a 'name the baby' contest but recalled just about everyone at TheOldPlace guessing that it was me when we did something similar. Here I wasn't so universally recognized. Given that the one characteristic of the photo is cheeriness have I really got so 'down' the last three years that I no longer resemble my high chair self?