I'm back home and warm and listening to my new favorite song, Biz Markie singing over "Bennie and the Jets." My clothes are filled with ice cubes. Today was just like Ben's Birthday Bear cartoon. My final exam was snowed out. So, I headed to the stats department at 6 with both arms full of cardboard, where Elijah and Tyler had two cases of beer, string and duct tape. We made tricked out viking sleds that would have made DaVinci proud, and walked and walked and walked to the jolly white hills. Our cardboard beasts worked pretty well, until they fell apart and then we tried trays, and linoleum, and everything else, but the secret was all around us, on the kids who came up to sled - garbage bags. Nothing seems faster than luging in a plastic bag. And it's nicest when you lie on your back in a plastic bag and luge headfirst down really tall hills, looking up at the stars, until unexpecedly crashing into a snow bank and getting a mouth full of snow.