Way back when I was working on my dissertation ...

.... a friend of mine let me use the family cabin by the lake (every Minnesotan has one). It was at a place called Lake Chetek, Wisconsin. Someone over on Andrew Sullivan's blog sent in a picture looking out through the fall trees to the lake. It looks like it is very near the place I stayed at, which was called Trollheim. I spent several long weekends there and got an enormous amount done.

Pleasant memories.