Happy New Year! What's going on with everyone?

I'm about to start working on my murder ballad thesis, so all y'all that I talked to WAY back in the summer will be hearing from me as soon as I get the OK from the Institutional Review Board at school. (They have to make sure I'm not going to play havoc with anyone's personal information, although I've made it very clear I won't be asking for anything confidential.)

Mister and I have two new cats, Buster and Bindi. Our old Thumper-cat lived to be 17 and we had to put him down back in September. We missed having cats, though, so our friends Bill & Deborah let us adopt a couple of their barn cats. Buster is a mess - he turns every found object into a toy. Bindi is a little more sedate. She likes to sit and observe.

It's butt-ass-COLD in Nashville today.

You?