Report from the battle lines

We have mostly finished the FAFSA (although we will wait until tonight to report, after paying a bunch of bills). We now gird our loins to tackle the dreaded CSS Profile.

Fiona, we do this all out of love for you. You'd better be damn grateful.

Oddball but touching

Here's a Monday day brightener. Animated on location at a beach, in snow, and underwater, this stop-motion short details a transoceanic conversation between two characters via objects in a bottle.

Seen on the intriguing website SwissMiss.

[For some reason, the embedding code doesn't seem to be working, but click upon the link on the word "Bottle."]