I can't believe it's January and there's snow on the ground.  It's really beautiful, probably because we don't get that much of it up here.  I'm pretty well stuck on the hill and that's OK with me.  I haven't written here because I was busy with the holidays and now I'm taking some classes at the university.  I'm taking an advanced painting class and all I've done is crap, crap, crap.  I'm trying to paint in acrylics which isn't working too well and I'm trying to get away from landscapes which also isn't going very well.  It's frustrating.

On the other hand, I've written my first paper in 35 years.  I really like my contemporary art history class, but the papers are a whole other thing.  More crap, no doubt.