I got this picture this morning.  This is Devan, with a slight fever but still nobly at work in the Media Lab.  Vermont is having a snow storm -- the first snow of Spring 2011, now doesn't that sound better? -- and let's hope the last.  The hat got there for her 20th birthday, along with a new pair of hand knit socks with a leaf pattern in Spring Green.  Her boss liked her hat very much.  He said she looked like a cake.  

I hate it when my child is sick and I can't be there to dote and fuss. I am very grateful that I sent hand knits to wrap her up in.  It's a way of doting and fussing by proxy.  I checked things out and her friends very helpfully doted and fussed for her birthday, which I am also very grateful for.