We’ve had quite a few unseasonably warm days in the past few weeks, but something about today really felt spring-like when I went outside this afternoon. It rained a bit yesterday, and was extremely foggy last night and this morning. But now that the fog has lifted, it is sunny and bright, calm, and a little damp from all the moisture. Ah, spring.

High temperatures for mid-December should be in the mid-40s (F, for those of you outside of the U.S.). Lately, we’ve had a lot of days in the 60s.

Not that I’m complaining. It feels great! (My sinuses don’t agree, every time it gets warm again I get all stuffed up!)

It made me wonder, are we just having a mild winter, or is it global warming?

I dug up a page on weather.com to view monthly highs and lows, as well as record highs and lows. Pulling up December for Annapolis, MD, the high temperatures on record span from 1956 to 2001.

Most notably, record high temperatures were set on six days in 1984. 1990 saw four record-highs in December. 1978, 1982 and 1998 all set three December record-highs.

Only one of the record highs was even in this decade. It seems this is nothing unusual.

So I guess I’ll enjoy it while it lasts, and be glad I’m not in Russia trapped by stranded polar bears.

I got a pretty big project done today (yay!), which gave me some breathing room to browse the web a little bit.

And I stumbled upon this story about an art teacher who had been suspended due to his hobby as a “butt-printing artist.”

Yep, that’s right. This guy paints with his ass (and, um, other parts). And people buy his paintings for hundreds of dollars. (eww!)

Here’s a link to The Washington Post‘s version of the article, Teacher in Crack Over Butt Art.

And for those of you that wish to see some examples of butt-print art, hop on over to http://buttprintart.com!

I’ve noticed his site is very slow today. Actually, right now, the images aren’t appearing (I did seem them earlier). Apparently his AOL site can’t handle the traffic generated by his making national news!

The problem with having time-consuming hobbies is that things don’t get done. Like Christmas shopping. And writing out Christmas cards.

I should know better, I’ve been singing through the holiday season for several years now. Why couldn’t I organize myself last month?

Time is slipping away at work too. Today I submitted my vacation request for the rest of the year, so I don’t lose my vacation days. I put in for six days, and I still have at least a day or two (which, my boss is cool enough to let me make up next year off the books).

That leaves only six work days until Christmas. I have thirteen projects left on my calendar for the year. Some of them can be quick, but others will take days.

So, sorry for the boring post, but I just don’t have any time to look around for inspiration!

Cats have it made. They sleep, eat, play, sleep, get head pets, sleep, repeat.

Some days, I’m fortunate enough to practice being a cat. Like yesterday.

OK, first I ran a 15K race (9.3 miles), which is not very cat-like.

Once I got home, however, I showered, and collapsed on the bed. After finishing a book I needed to return to the library today, I napped for about three hours.

Ahh … to be a cat. Today I’m back at work, and it’s been a rather tedious day.

I miss being a cat!