Used up the past short while playing around with category-associated icons. 
Why? Quit with all the hard questions already!

Truthfully, it’s a mixture of deeply compelling forces:  1. 
avoiding the last bit of shine on my project final.  2.  avoiding the
small stack of gradable student work left to be read, thought through, etc. 3.
avoiding making lunch for a PS2-marathoning Ph. who has the day off because it’s
too cold outside. 3b. it’s too cold inside to move around much. 4. beats the
heck out of putting the rest of the dressings and ornamentation on the x-mas
tree, especially since fortune has it that we’re motoring over to Detroit City
later this week.  5. I’m just in the mood for icons. 6. I’ve been thinking
for some time about the potentials of using category tags to designate author
IDs, with a sense that collaboratively authored entries could be represented
through the category function, which allows for cross-listing (whereas the
single login, solitary author access route does not–as easily).  So as I
prepare to use blogs in WRT205 in the spring, I’d like to think about giving
students the option of co-authoring entries (maybe even plotting the course so
that co-entries are compulsory a few times).  Yah, there’s more to it, but
it needs more thought, and frankly I’m just not up to it right now.  And
yah, I still have to choose readings and so on.  And I didn’t even say
anything about what that has to do with icons.

So although I’m not overwhelmed by the mind-blowing effects of the
categoricons (do say, you like ’em?)–or even sure they impact the design of the
blog in any useful way, I’ll likely continue to mess around with them some
more.  In between getting the rest of my serious, important work done, of
course.  Hear the lunch whistle blowin’….