Feeling grumpy like an unhuggable teddy bear after waking up from a dreamless cold winter night was a little bit of déjà vu these days due to my neonatal love for Béla Tarr’s black-and-white film Sátántangó. I needily sipped my espresso cortado and put on Mamoru Fujieda’s Patterns of Plants album, gradually allowing the warm musical thoughts sunbathing every drop and crumb of my being. Phew.

With Mozart and the Whale, featuring Radha Mitchell and Josh Hartnett as a couple with Asperger syndrome, quietly playing in my antiqued CRT television set, I set myself to archive photos taken in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s East Campus. A day with plenty of sunshine, below-zero icy temperature, two layers of jeans, three layers of sweaters, and five layers of big socks, I recalled.