I've been lurking here, but haven't posted anything in a while.
ArkieDukie, awesome poem.
Sue71 and DukePA, I have Jan 17 open, can I join ya'll?
DevilAlumna, a couch in your office? Jealous! And, you got to take a nap? Really jealous! Also, I had the first day back blues. Though that was tempered by the ickly blues losing Sunday while we walked all over the Hoakies.
Speaking of the icky blues loss. I was in the heart of icky blue country teaching high school kids at church, who happen to be icky blue fans, bless their hearts. While I was reveling in the loss, ironically to a Catholic school and I'm teaching Catholic high school students, I had to work on consoling a couple of the boys as they were devastated (I'm not exaggerating) that their team will not be undefeated this year. They just didn't get it that a loss can be a good thing or that it's best for their team to lose now than in March (even though I will love it when they lose in March, twice). Oh, my ride home was sweet despite being caught up in traffic from the game, especially with all the Duke basketball paraphernalia on my car.