It’s snowing today, and the snow is so beautiful that the blistering cold does not bother me as much (at least when I’m inside my cozy 67.5-degree classroom). Students are taking a test so I have most of the day to write in relative silence before the storm of grading hits. Today I’m working on my academic book and am about to get started on a paper I’m giving at the Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity conference next month.

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