Entries tagged with "weather"
Summertime... and the parkin' is easy...
posted by srah on May 1, 2008 12:10 PM
Tags: driving, parking, srahtown, the university i work at, weather
Summer is held at the wrong time of year. In Srahtown in the summer, there is suddenly an abundance of parking available. You can arrive late and still get a good spot. You can leave during the day, come back and park in the same spot... or a better one! It is glorious! Vive l'été! This is not the case the rest of the year. The rest of the year, there are fierce battles over parking spaces, with shivs and chains and tridents and suchlike. Academics in their tweed jackets and elbow patches hold their Very Academic Pipes in one...
And we walked in the snow with no shoes, because we couldn't afford shoes, because it was a Recession.
posted by srah on February 20, 2008 5:22 PM
Let me tell you sonny... let me tell you straight You kids today ain't never had it tough Always had everything handed to you on a silver plate You lazy brats think nothing's good enough Well, nobody ever drove me to school when it was ninety degrees below We had to walk buck naked through forty miles of snow Worked in the coal mines twenty-two hours a day for just half a cent Had to sell my internal organs just to pay the rent - Weird Al Yankovic, "When I Was Your Age" Have I ever mentioned that I am...
The Most Exciting Thing That Happened to Me Over Break, by Srah, age Seven (or in the style thereof)
posted by srah on January 2, 2008 12:49 PM
Tags: hat, readers' choice, stories, weather
The most exciting thing that happened to me over break was when I lost my hat. It was a red hat. It was windy when I lost my hat. My hat flew right off my head! I could not chase my hat because my hat was blown away. My hat plus the wind equals faster than me. I hope a homeless person finds my hat and my hat keeps the homeless person's head warm. It is a good hat. I miss my hat. The End....
Now on the sidewalk - ooh, sunny morning, uh huh - lies a body, just oozin' life
posted by srah on December 7, 2007 12:45 PM
Question: Would it kill somebody to shovel the sidewalks in this godforsaken town? Follow-up question: If so, who would that "somebody" be? Can we just take a moment to consider whether his/her life is as valuable as me not slipping on the sidewalk and having warm, dry feet¹? I am thinking that - unless the "somebody" is me - my feet are probably going to win out. Ready the torches and pitchforks, everyone! ¹ I forgot to put on my boots when I went to class today².² :(...
Then goes tromping around wearing BOOTS like Gaston
posted by srah on December 7, 2007 12:37 PM
I can't remember when the last time was that I owned proper winter boots. My last pair of boots were lace-up style and came up to my ankle, more like hiking boots than waterproof, snowproof ones. And I lost those somehow (or threw them away?) before I moved down to Ohio. Boots are one of those things that I don't usually think of until I need them, and then when I need them the in-store selection is scant and/or strange. Fortunately this year I planned ahead and was able to find sensible, plain-looking, faux-fur-lined black boots. I can even tuck...
Overnight, there's been a breathless change in you
posted by srah on November 15, 2007 10:56 PM
Tags: haiku, health, nablopomo, nablopomo 2007, poetry, weather
Well hello, and welcome to my living room blog. It's a Multi-Stanza Weather-Haiku Extravaganza! And you're all invited! Last night: wore no coat This morning: need light jacket Right now: OH GOD, SNOW! Forty-one degrees Where the hell did that come from? Should have brought a hat What be these white flakes? Be it snow, or do the gods Need Head & Shoulders? Accident'ly punched the microwave. Unrelated to weather, sorry. My hand is bleeding Next time I'll punch you HARDER! Curse you, microwave! Oh, back to weather. Now they're forecasting showers. We'll be wet AND cold. I'm not crying...
La aref!
posted by srah on April 9, 2007 7:49 PM
Tags: arabic, in arabic, weather
I haven't written anything in Arabic for a while. I am sort of unmotivated. My tutor/student worker suggested that if I'm not feeling challenged, I could ask the teacher for some extra work. Ha ha! No. I am too lazy for that. Instead I will challenge myself by leaving my homework until the very last moment (frequently the morning before I go to work, sometimes later) and end up trying to do the exercise a couple of answers ahead as we go along in class to see if I can get away with it. Often I do. Anyway, I'm still...
I am your sunshine, your only sunshine
posted by srah on March 16, 2007 3:03 PM
I don't like to toot my own horn¹, but the weather is sunny and beautiful in Seattle again - despite all the rain that was forecasted for this weekend - and the only reason I can think of is that I am here. You're welcome, Seattle! (Note: If it rains tomorrow, it is probably because the gods are trying to punish me for my pride. Yes. It is all about me. Why do you ask?) ¹ False....
Yippetydoo!
posted by srah on March 9, 2007 4:43 PM
Springtime springtime springtime is here it's sunny out and it's warm out and it's time to take coats off and it makes me happy happy happy hello sunshine welcome back I missed you I missed you I missed you! I feel like dancing!...
Follow-up on yesterday's Seussian weather report
posted by srah on February 21, 2007 8:17 AM
Now here is something less-ly good: We're going to have a little flood....
Wherein the rising temperatures turn me into Dr Seuss
posted by srah on February 20, 2007 12:02 PM
The snow's all melted into mud And Sarah says: It is no gud....
Rip! Rip! Rip the groundhog off the field
posted by srah on February 16, 2007 12:11 PM
Groundhog! It is 5°F today. You are dead to me....
Love power, it's the power of a sweet flower
posted by srah on February 14, 2007 1:00 PM
Tags: holidays, power outage, valentine's day, weather
I lost power around 4am this morning. When the power went out, something in my apartment went "beep" and woke me up. It's good to know that I can be awoken by unfamiliar "beep"s because I have been known to sleep through smoke alarms before. I didn't wake up very much... just enough to look at my watch (fortunately there was moonlight or something, because there didn't seem to be any lights anywhere around) and to think "If my power doesn't come back on, I will have to stay huddled under my blankets until it does. And if it doesn't...
Catching up with srah
posted by srah on February 12, 2007 1:50 PM
Tags: baking, computers, isidore, weather
I'm not keeping up so well with the blogging, since I don't have a working computer at home right now and all of my time is filled with cooking, walking and trying to fix the dangèd computer. Here's a bit of what I've been up to: On Saturday, I fixed Isidore sort of by accident. I started him up, ran through all the repair utility thingies, actually got him going for the first time in weeks, played with him for several hours, backed some stuff up, restarted him to make sure he really was fixed, played with him some more,...
Aaaaand there goes Miss Gulch on a bicycle
posted by srah on December 1, 2006 12:50 PM
Tags: readers' choice, weather
There is a strong low pressure system moving through the area today. It started out as a very windy day and has now turned into a very windy day with ominous dark clouds overhead. No, the clouds aren't really ominous. The sky today can be better described as evil. "Ominous" suggests that the clouds are saying, "You'd better look out or you're going to get rained on" or "Guess what? We're bringing an ice storm your way." These clouds are saying, "You'd better hope you're good at dodging entire trees as they come whipping towards your head at 50mph, sucka,...
Rainless in Seattle
posted by srah on August 11, 2006 12:06 PM
Seattle has a reputation for being bleak and rainy all the time. However, in my vast experience with that city¹, there has been no such weather. When apete and I were in Seattle last weekend, the sun shone warmly down on us every single day. I think I got a sunburn in freaking Seattle. We were told that Seattle only gets 54 days of sunshine all year, so apparently I used up 7% of Seattle's sunshine in one weekend visit. I think it's all lies. I think Seattle is trying to keep the tourists out. It never actually rains in...
Cup o' Soup ≠ falafel
posted by srah on March 21, 2006 12:22 PM
Tags: weather
Yesterday, the news told me that it was the first day of spring. Then the weather report told me to expect Winter Storms. I don't know what it is anymore, but I want it to stop. A week ago today, I was squinting through my sunglasses as I stuffed my face with falafel. This morning I had to brush the snow off my car, and sleet is predicted later in the day. Send me back!...
Good morning! Everyone's dead except you!
posted by srah on December 9, 2005 8:02 AM
Tags: united states, weather
I woke up this morning to a lovely story on Morning Edition that went along the lines of: "The morning commute will be slowed on the East Coast this morning, due to snowstorms that killed twenty or so people in the Midwest." What is a bigger news story here? Midwesterners killed or East Coasters inconvenienced? Why are the deaths of Midwesterners simply a footnote to a story about East Coast traffic? Oh America... your coastcentric media coverage is pathetic and disgusting!...
I wish the Ice Man would goeth
posted by srah on December 6, 2005 12:04 PM
Tags: benefits, ice, ohio, srahtown, the university i work at, weather
Sorry I haven't blogged recently. My fingers have been frozen to various metallic objects. For verily, I hath movèd into the freezing rain belt, between Dayton's snow and Cincinnati's rain. Or maybe it's the other way around. Either way, we're in the middle and we get iced upon. The good thing about living in this weather is that after you've finished scraping your car out from under the layer of ice, you have the makings of a delicious sno-cone! The bad thing about living in this weather is that I lied about the first part and there is no good...
And Toto too?
posted by srah on November 15, 2005 5:00 PM
Tags: weather
Hypothetically, when one lives on the 3rd floor of a building and one learns at 5pm that one has a tornado watch in one's county until 10pm, what does one do? I am curious - I've never lived in a tornado-infested area and not had a basement. I'm thinking about going to the library - they'll take care of me, right? They're librarians! But eventually I will starve and have to leave the building. What the heck do people without basements do? Please answer and I will come back and read your answers tomorrow, after I recover from being dead...
I'm mellllllllllllllting!
posted by srah on October 24, 2005 10:19 PM
Tags: weather
Dear Whoever's In Charge: I went to work on Friday and it rained all day. I went to work today and it rained all day. If it rains all day every day that I work here, I don't know how long I'll last. PLEASE! Just a little sunshine! Or at least a dry grey day!...
Boy, stop crying wolf!
posted by srah on May 13, 2005 5:42 PM
Tags: weather
The smoke detector keeps chirping but nothing is cooking or burning. Now the tornado siren is going off and neither the TV nor weather.com nor the bright sky outside leads me to believe that there is actually a tornado going on. Are you trying to FRIGHTEN me to death? Just burn me or tornado me already, for heaven's sake. Is it some kind of Friday the 13th prank?...
Sarah? Bitch about the weather? Never!
posted by srah on May 12, 2005 9:05 AM
Tags: weather
I cut through the Chemistry building today on my way out of work. As I walked through the building I realized my face was wet because my tear ducts had frozen up and tears were now melting all over my face. Weather, it is May 12. This service is unacceptable. I would like to talk to your manager and I will have you know that I will not be leaving a tip....
April (snow) showers make Sarahs glower
posted by srah on April 24, 2005 12:23 PM
View from the front door Awwwwwwww, hellz no....
It's like sock hop, but it's not!
posted by srah on March 16, 2005 1:05 AM
I love The Internet. I love that I can just shout things out into the void that people can read or not read and care about or not care about. And so, dear Internet, on that note I would like to share with you the fact that I bought the coolest pair of socks evar for ONE DOLLAR last week but they really have to be worn with a skirt and am hoping to have the opportunity to do so tomorrow, as the weather is supposed to be a) a few degrees above freezing and b) only partly cloudy. It's...
Face to beak with nature
posted by srah on February 22, 2005 8:56 AM
Tags: weather
I gave Mr B****** a ride home yesterday and had to slow down for ducks. His neighborhood was full of them! It was great, because I like ducks. They are cute and delicious. But there were, like, 30 ducks just wandering around the subdivision. What were they doing there? Why weren't they hibernating or flying south or whatever ducks do in the winter? Does this mean that winter is over? Or were they just having a party? Or are ducks TAKING OVER THE EARTH? What's going on here????...
The weather report
posted by srah on February 15, 2005 9:08 AM
Tags: weather
February showers bring......
The verdict is...
posted by srah on February 2, 2005 10:11 AM
Tags: weather
Screw you, Phil! Not only are you a harbinger of doom, you're also the worst rodent-poet I've ever heard....
Stop staring out the window and get back to work!
posted by srah on January 14, 2005 9:37 AM
Tags: weather
The sun is shining through the clouds in a sort of yellowish way and tiny, floaty snowflakes are falling and dancing around. It's very pretty and fey* - sort of like what I think snow in Rivendell would be like - but I only think that because I'm inside, where it's warm. ––––– * I rule....
I'll stop the world and melt with you
posted by srah on January 6, 2005 12:58 PM
Tags: weather
Dear Jobs In Virginia, Maryland, California... Please find me. I'm already sick of driving in snow. *weeps*...
I have got a hat...
posted by srah on December 13, 2004 10:06 AM
Tags: weather
You know what this blog hasn't had enough of lately? Whining about the weather. C'mon, you know you all miss it! I have recently found myself thinking that winter really isn't that tough. I don't know what all the fuss is about... little brown furry things with short stumpy legs and great long noses... Nope. Apparently what I thought was winter was, in fact, an anteater. A winter, I have discovered today, is a huge savage beast, ten feet long, with masses of sharp pointed teeth and it looks like this-- Right. Stop that; it's silly. Point is, it's a...
Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes and the top of my head and everywhere...
posted by srah on November 29, 2004 2:57 PM
I've noticed today that people have been going to obscene lengths to hold doors for me. I'll be, like, eight feet away from the door and they'll wait for me. I've decided that this is either because: a) I look DAAAAAAAAYUM good, or b) I look DAAAAAAAAYUM bedraggled and pitiful. Given the heavy snowfall, I'm inclined to believe the latter. But fear not; given my unswerving egotism, I'm also inclined to believe the former. I bet my eyelashes are quite fetching all caked with snow....
Overheard, on the consistency of today's precipitation
posted by srah on November 24, 2004 6:18 PM
Tags: weather
"It's like God's making snow cones!" - a five-year-old girl that I made up so that you wouldn't know it's actually what I was thinking...
'For what, we ask, is life without a touch of Poetry in it?'
posted by srah on September 17, 2004 9:23 AM
Fall arrived today. I was not forewarned of this. Came as quite a shock. Bare legs and flip-flops Are not autumn apparel. I may not survive....
Fermentation and Fumier*
posted by srah on August 2, 2004 5:27 PM
It has been very hot here for the past few days. Very hot indeed. We are surrounded by farm country. Very surrounded indeed. Somehow the heat has mixed with the location in such a way that the smell of manure is constantly wafting around. It is on the breeze, but it is also in the air when the air is still. It is constantly with us, and there is no escape. It's not that bad. I mean, it smells like manure, but you kind of get used to it, much as I imagine farm folk do. However, on a trip...
Haiku regarding the picture at left
posted by srah on July 9, 2004 9:21 AM
Tags: haiku, poetry, travel, weather
See how I'm dressed in November 2002? I want a scarf now. This cold weather is inappropriate - July should be stifling!...
April showers that kill May flowers
posted by srah on April 27, 2004 9:28 AM
Tags: weather
When I looked yesterday at today's weather forecast, there was nothing out of the ordinary. It must have been in the 50s or 60s or so, because there was nothing there to make the top of my head blow off or to make me go "Oooooooooo!" in alarm and surprise. It's snowing. BOOM! Ouch. Oooooooooo!...
Life is skittles and life is beer
posted by srah on April 5, 2004 6:53 PM
Tags: weather
It's already been warmer this season. It's been sunnier. And yet something about this day makes me feel like Spring is here. It makes me want to turn my face upwards and bask in the sunshine. It makes me want to roll down the windows and turn up the music. It makes me want to dance energetically around the house to Oliver and The Looking Glass. It makes me want to be active. It makes me want to jog somewhere - just run and run and run-- For about five feet, until I collapse, gasping on the sidewalk. Who am...
Scribbled as I tried to fall back asleep
posted by srah on March 30, 2004 6:25 AM
Tags: weather
Dear Sun, Kindly stop rising at ungodly hours like 6am. Th'art very wakefulsome and I art very sleepfulsome. SRAH...
Open letter to foul Michigan weather
posted by srah on March 16, 2004 12:25 PM
Tags: weather
Dear Snow, Please continue to fall until you come up to about my neck, so that I don't have to go to Programming class today. Actually, I don't mind going to class. Instead, please find a way that I could go to class but would not have to hand in this homework, since I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing. I have no idea how snow could achieve this, but I'm sure you'll think of something. Thanks, weather, you're a dear. Love, SRAH P.S. If you are not going to be useful to me in some way or another,...
The Weather Pixie reports
posted by srah on March 5, 2004 4:45 PM
Tags: weather
It's 64 degrees right now. Tomorrow, it's going to snow. Michigan, you can go directly to Hell!...
'And we could curse in fluent kangaroo'
posted by srah on February 3, 2004 12:55 AM
Tags: weather
Note: I have just read over the following entry and it occurs to me that it is 1am and I have been programming for a good seven hours. And you can tell. Pay no attention to that girl behind the keyboard. Is brain damage contagious? Damn you, Phil! I don't care what you say. I am having Spring right here and right now. All of the snow and ice and wintry behavior that you were predicting can just stay in Pennsylvania with you. Who cares about Pennsylvania, anyway? Good, now that I've offended my entire reading audience, moving on. I...
And I start to complain that there's no school
posted by srah on January 28, 2004 6:42 PM
Tags: weather
The Argentinian exchange student, who I will henceforth refer to as Señorita C, was all excited to start school on Tuesday. I don't know why the new semester starts on a Tuesday, but it does. She woke up around 9 on Tuesday morning and wondered why no one had woken her up or taken her to school. School had been cancelled that day, which makes some sense because there was a lot of snow on the ground and there was still a fair bit of snowage going on at the time she would have been heading to school. I don't...
Tuesday (K)night plans
posted by srah on January 26, 2004 10:54 AM
Tags: weather
My boss tells me that the weather forecast for the next 24 hours is sleet and freezing rain overnight, to be followed by 4 to 6 inches of snow during the day. Weather.com, which likes to shout, tells us that A MIX OF SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO THE REGION TUESDAY MORNING... THEN QUICKLY TURN OVER TO SNOW. THE SNOW... POSSIBLY HEAVY AT TIMES... WILL PERSIST THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND THEN INTO THE EVENING... GRADUALLY COMING TO AN END AFTER MIDNIGHT. TOTAL SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS OF 4 TO 8 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM SYSTEM. I...
Ode to the new love of my life
posted by srah on January 25, 2004 8:57 PM
A reason to stay in my room and to study: Thank you, space heater. Normally, mine is the coldest room in the house. It isn't today. Today, only a few sweaters are required - Not gloves in the house....
Cancel school! Cancel school!
posted by srah on January 14, 2004 2:31 PM
Tags: weather
It's snowing like cats and dogs here. If cats and dogs snowed. It's snowing like dandruff. Except "snow" isn't really a method performed by the object "dandruff" either. Dandruff just looks like snow. Hmmm, scratch that one too. So it's snowing like... like the weather. When it snows. Ah, simile. This is why I'm not a writer....
Cold I am in the ways of The Force
posted by srah on December 11, 2003 1:27 PM
Tags: ann arbor, michigan, weather
Today's temperature: 30°F Wind: 17 to 23 mph Feels Like: 18°F Wind leads to windchill. Windchill leads to coldness. Coldness leads to suffering. I figure I have two options. I can: a) dig a series of tunnels connecting every building I will have to go to all winter, the bus stop, and all of the residential areas where I have ever managed to find parking OR b) run away, leaving Michigan altogether. Do they have a Human-Computer Interaction program at Florida State? How about the University of Bermuda? Fiji? The problem is that my fingers are too cold to hold...
I'm nightmaring of a White Thanksgiving
posted by srah on November 24, 2003 10:41 AM
Tags: weather
Yesterday the weather was in the 60s. The sun shone, I wore a sweatshirt instead of a coat and, although it was a little windy, I was warm and comfortable all day. Today it's snowing. The temperature is approximately However Many Degrees It Is When Your Blood Starts To Freeze In Your Veins. Stupid Michigan....
Can we get underground tunnels so I can hide from reality?
posted by srah on November 13, 2003 10:51 AM
Tags: weather
As I drove to school yesterday, the idiot DJ was making the weather forecast. "That's right, we're expecting snow tomorrow, but for today, we've got a high of 64 degrees." Welcome to Michigan. If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes. But I'm not ready. No snow, please. No snow. I haven't seen any yet and I hope I won't for a long, long ti-- Crap. There is a little sliver of a window view from my seat in the computer lab. There are white things floating around. Giant dandruff? As long as I avoid going outside, I can...
It's beginning to look a lot like Halloween
posted by srah on October 26, 2003 10:12 PM
Tags: halloween, holidays, weather
In movies, kids go trick-or-treating door-to-door and you open the door and see them standing there in their costumes with eager looks on their faces, bags outstretched. What about a realistic Michigan Halloween? Eager looks, check. Bags, check. Costumes? Hmmm. And what are you? A princess in a parka? Well, isn't that cute? And you are a crayon in a coat? Adorable. Awwwww, it's Anakin Skywalker in an anorak. An Orc in an overcoat. Jack Sparrow in a ski jacket. This is October in Michigan, people. Don't even get me started on the grown-up costumes. Sexy French maid... in sexy...
srah is no longer allowed near household appliances
posted by srah on October 7, 2003 6:47 PM
Tags: weather
It was lovely and warm today and is expected to remain so for the rest of the week. After our horrible frigid weather last week, people were out basking in the sunshine today; ambling to class instead of shuffling and shivering. So why am I still freezing? I think the house-temperature has not caught up with the outdoors. I oughter put on some gloves, because all I can think of is the part in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets where Dobby had to iron his hands as a punishment for betraying his master. Ironnnnnn... warrrrrrrrrrrrrm......
S. Diddy
posted by srah on October 2, 2003 7:08 AM
Here is the weather report from last night. Yeah, I'm gonna die. Frank is predicting snow today. I'm not ready! I'm not ready for any of this weather. I don't have enough sweaters. I don't have enough warm socks. I don't have a coat. I do have a coat, actually, but it's The Puffy Coat. The Puffy Coat serves, each year, as an impetus to go out and buy a winter coat. It is horribly large and blue and makes me look like Violet Beauregarde with an eensy-weensy head when I wear it. It isn't even as warm as it...
The weather and - what was I talking about?
posted by srah on September 23, 2003 11:18 AM
Tags: weather
Yesterday, there was a crisp juiciness as I bit into the nectarine that was very pleasurable - until I realized it wasn't a nectarine at all, but a HUMAN HEAD!! Sorry. Distracted there. Starting again. Yesterday, there was a crisp...ness to the air that signaled the arrival of fall. I was excited because I realized that I hadn't had a Michigan fall last year... or really any fall at all, because Vichy weather was an ass and decided to give spring and summer a miss and went straight on into autumn. Sorry. Distracted again. As I was saying, Vichy weather...
"That's just what Jesus said, sir"
posted by srah on June 6, 2003 2:07 PM
Tags: weather
The weather has gotten warm and sunny and now I'm getting a big taste of Be Careful What You Wish For, with all this dratted sunshine that makes me squint. There's no pleasing some people....
There's vomit on her sweater: mom's spaghetti
posted by srah on April 15, 2003 12:34 PM
Tags: assistantship, weather
First of all, I am in no way in favor of wearing vomit-stained clothing. In fact, you might go so far as to say I am against this practice. Second of all, if I was wearing a sweater onto which I had vomited my mom's spaghetti, it would be unspeakably atrocious. I haven't eaten my mom's spaghetti in at least seven months. Can you imagine how that would reek? So no, I am not wearing a vomit-stained sweater. I just felt I needed a title for this post. So after the long introduction and explanation, I bring you the main...
"La terre, sans toi, c'est petit"
posted by srah on April 2, 2003 5:14 AM
Tags: weather
I have a cold and I am cold, and it's raining. Mme Messana keeps turning the heat on and off as the weather changes, but she's always about a day late, so there's none at the moment. I don't want to go anywhere because of my cold, but I don't want to stay here because of the cold. I am torn and bored and boring. Changing the subject, this is a good song....
Snow snow snow
posted by srah on January 31, 2003 8:27 AM
Tags: assistantship, weather
I spent yesterday afternoon and evening running around like a chicken with my head cut off, as the snow began to fall. I had all kinds of errands to get out of the way before the weekend, and meanwhile, we were being dumped on. These were the kind of snowflakes large enough to land on my nose and obstruct my vision for a few seconds before they melted. When I was done running around Vichy, I ran up to Presles, as we were having a big Assistant Potluck. I brought salad with green peppers, carrots, and mushrooms. By the time...
Crack!
posted by srah on January 11, 2003 4:45 AM
Tags: assistantship, weather
I'm afraid to venture out into the cold and snow and ice. I think I'll just hole up here until spring comes. I have tea a-plenty, so I'll manage to survive. Speaking of cold, snow and ice, whoever designed Vichy was clearly smoking crack. Here we are with a town full of precisely (I counted) one hillion jillion old people. Instead of having concrete sidewalks, which would give some traction, the whole town is covered in a slick, smooth tile. The ice is better to walk on than the salted parts, because it gives you traction, whereas the tile is...
First snow!
posted by srah on January 8, 2003 1:01 PM
Tags: weather
Snow has finally arrived in Vichy! ... make it go away....
Let it snow let it snow let it snow
posted by srah on December 10, 2002 6:20 AM
Tags: weather
They are having ice storms in Charlotte, North Carolina, and I have not yet seen a flake of the white stuff. Don't, however, get the impression that I'm complaining. Charlotte can have the snow, for all I care, and can take with it the ice and the yucky muddy sludge that snow melts into....
Oops
posted by srah on November 19, 2002 4:16 AM
Tags: assistantship, weather
I accidentally came to school today. I forgot the 1ASMS have a test, so I have no classes today. This wouldn't be so bad if a) the Internet worked, so I had something to do while I was here or b) I hadn't walked to school in the freezing freezing Michiganesque cold. They are doing work on my bus stop, so I had to walk to the next one and missed the bus in the process. And to think I considered wearing a skirt today. Brrrrrrrrrrrr....
Cute but dumb
posted by srah on October 17, 2002 1:16 PM
Tags: weather
We had a brief respite from the cold, but I think winter is coming now. Poop. "J'ai froid aux jambes," said the dumb girl who wore a skirt today....
BOOM!
posted by srah on April 12, 2002 1:41 PM
Tags: weather
The weather has been rather schizophrenic lately. Or maybe manic/depressive. You'd have to ask the psych major about that. I don't know my psychology terms or how to relate them to the weather. One minute the sun's out and the next there's a thunderstorm....
Hell no
posted by srah on March 21, 2002 9:51 AM
Tags: weather
It did not snow last night. I am in denial....
What's up with these short posts?
posted by srah on March 14, 2002 11:23 AM
I guess I'm in a short-post mood. At least I'm in a posting mood, which I wasn't at the beginning of the week. The weather report lied to me. It is sunny and nice again today. Mmmmmmmm. Not as warm as yesterday, but it's the sun that matters. I'm not an outdoors person, but after a long grey winter, I feel a bit like a sunflower, turning my face up and trying to absorb as much sun as possible. Maybe there's a bit of chlorophyll in my veins after all. The French word for sunflower is tournesol, meaning that it...
Sunshiney goodness
posted by srah on March 13, 2002 3:44 PM
Tags: weather
The weather is so nice today. The sun is shining, it's about 55 degrees, people are walking around without coats on, classes are being held outside... Is it too much to hope that Spring is finally sprung? Sigh. Yes. Clouds and rain and forty degrees for the next 10 days. When the days are like this, I bask lazily in the sunshine all day long, then get depressed and frustrated in the evening because I didn't get anything done. Sigh....
Hack ack ack
posted by srah on March 1, 2002 2:54 PM
Tags: exercise, weather, winter
Running in the cold hurts my lungs. Or my throat. Or something. It hurts so much I can't tell where. But my paper's handed in, so that's all that matters. It's so cold outside. It's so hot in the room. I hate winter....
Snow
posted by srah on February 1, 2002 11:09 AM
Tags: weather
Instead of the big puffy bumblebee-flakes that were coming down a few days ago, the wind has kicked in to help and there are now little tiny hornets flying at me and stinging my face. I'm moving to Tahiti....
The stuff that minor headlines are made of
posted by srah on January 31, 2002 5:36 PM
Tags: weather
ALBION, MI -- A van carrying eleven Albion College students and their organization's advisor to a conference in Ohio careened off the road today, killing everyone inside. One student, later identified by the tag in her underpants as Sarah M*****, managed to croak a few last words to our reporter on the scene before croaking herself. "Damned snow and ice," she whispered, clutching at the reporter's arm as the rescue team tried to dig her out from under the pile of CDs and games she had brought along on the trip, "I knew this was going to happen. Eleven students...
The weather demons are jumping up and down on my soul
posted by srah on January 30, 2002 12:47 PM
Tags: weather
I shouldn't have said anything. The weather was beautiful and lovely yesterday and today it was cold and rainy. Which is only one day on the way to this weekend, when we are supposed to be having something like ice storms as we drive to Ohio. Poo poo poo....
...In the middle of July
posted by srah on January 30, 2002 8:32 AM
Tags: weather
I woke up this morning to Shades Apart's "Stranger By the Day" which starts out "Snow is falling from the sky..." It prompted me to look out the window and emit a rather unladylike expletive. I. Hate. Snow....
The weather is so beautiful...
posted by srah on January 28, 2002 5:13 PM
Tags: weather
The weather is so beautiful and springy. I hate winter. I hope it's gone for good, but that's probably a little too optimistic for January....
I have psychic powers...
posted by srah on December 26, 2001 10:50 AM
Tags: weather
I have psychic powers. Or half a psychic power. As I demanded, I got snow just in time for xmas, but the part about it all disappearing by the 26th fell through....
It snowed!
posted by srah on December 14, 2001 12:06 PM
Tags: weather
It snowed! It snowed! It snew! Blaaaaaaaargh....
It feels like September...
posted by srah on December 5, 2001 12:21 PM
Tags: weather
It feels like September today. Or maybe spring. Whatever it is, it is wholly inappropriate for December. It's wrong it's wrong it's wrong. But please, Gods of Weather, do not pay attention to me. Even though I can't deal with this warm weather in my little walnut-brain, I don't want the cold weather to come. Here is my weather request: Exactly like this all through the winter except for December 24th and 25, when it will be nice and snowy. The snow will melt and the icky sludge and mud will disappear by the 26th. Thank you for your attention....
I hate snow.
posted by srah on October 26, 2001 10:08 AM
Tags: weather
I hate snow. I. HATE. SNOW. At first, it was sort of a fluke. Oooh, snow on 25 October - how amusing. They were just little flakes - looked like the dandruff of the gods. Now it's really puffy big chunks of snowflakes. This is not funny. This is not a good joke. It had better warm up or somebody's gonna get it. If it starts sticking, there's gonna be trouble....
