Happy Leap Day!

Happy Leap Day, everyone! I wondered this morning if, like daylight savings time, Benjamin Franklin invented the concept of "leap year," but I investigated and found out that leap year is actually attributed to Julius Caesar in 45 B.C.--a little before Ben Franklin came up with daylight savings. So, February is a little longer than usual this year, but at least it's still a tad shorter than the other months. Here's one last picture from last night--only, unlike the creepy one with the portal to another world in it (I like Lindy's description of what it looks like), the one you see here was staged. If you look in the corner of the mirror, you will see a spooky face, but that's actually Laurie standing by the bed with a flashlight shining on her face.

This weekend is the big "interview weekend," where all of the prospective students for next year's Historical Administration class will be coming to campus to be interviewed by the professors. I didn't come to interview weekend last year--because it was only about two weeks after Mom and I had been out here for the Illinois State History Symposium, so I got to do my interview over the phone. There are supposedly about ten people coming this weekend, but as far as I know none of them will be staying here at Aly's and my apartment. My job is going to be giving campus tours to everyone. Maybe I'll make it a ghost tour! :-) ha ha ha. Don't worry--my current infatuation with ghost stuff probably won't last very long. I kind of go through phases of different things I'm interested in--right now it's ghosts and Jesse James. I am very intrigued by Jesse James. One time I saw a bank he supposedly robbed in Independence, Missouri, and I've seen his name carved on the wall of the Mark Twain Cave in Hannibal, Missouri (but he's probably not the one who carved it there).

In the past 24 hours, we have experienced all kinds of weather--last night when we finished bowling, we came outside and there was a mini-blizzard going on. It was snowing really hard, and there was ice on everything. Then, this morning it was cloudy and slushy and gross outside. Then, it started to rain really hard. Then, the sun came out and it got really warm. In fact, there was just a hint of the spring in the air. It's supposed to be 59 degrees here on Sunday, but then back down to a high of 30 on Tuesday. Pure craziness! I'm ready for spring to come for real.