Good News

• My house inspection went well. Sometime around mid-March I should be a home owner for the first time.
  
• A paper submitted to a conference in Europe was accepted, following much concern about the low rate of acceptance at the conference. Now I can start planning a trip to the EU in August. And I can list it as 'accepted' on my vita.
  
• My third year review will be a month later than I thought it would be. Maybe enough time for one more submission.
  
• A student decided that he didn't have time to do a thesis with me, saving me the conversation which would have been quite unpleasant.
• A student who owed me work from last semester turned things in without prompting (!)
  
• Things are falling into place for a big name Librarian to visit campus. Everyone who I've asked to cancel or move something to accommodate his visit has been happy to do so. Class room space is magically available without any fuss. Fantastic.
  
• The Nurnberg EisBar Baby was deemed well enough to get a name.
  

Tiny Bears

Baby things are always cute, but this new polar bear is especially cute (I know B* is all about pandas, but this could compete). There's a video listed as one of the 'most popular' on CNN's main website (but I can't figure out how to link to it directly. Watch - you can see it snore and cry and eat and snore again. Wouldn't it be fun to take care of?

(I'm kind of sad that they have to wear gloves to take care of it. I'd want to pet it and cuddle it.)