"the long bitter nights and the wild winter's day..."
so...cold...
I'm definitely not adapting well to this climate. According to the Weather Channel, it's currently 10 degrees outside and "feels like" -4. I went outside like 1/2 an hour ago for dinner, and ran all the way back because it was so cold. That's one thing that will be good about being in an upper-class house: not having to trek all the way over to Annenberg. And, although we called Yard Ops today and a guy came by to fix the heat, he was like, "OK, I'll go check on something" and never came back. So our room is still like 60 degrees. The hallway is actually slightly warmer.
But today did yield my first gazing expedition to the Fogg Museum (one of the art museums on campus). And I was assigned to write about a painting in the Impressionism room for my Italian thing, so I got to stare at the two Picassos, several Monets, Renoirs, Matisses, Toulouse-Lautrecs... it was pretty sweet : ) I really need to get over there more often, I'm thinking.
And also yesterday was incredible. So that kind of makes the piles of dirty snow and the arctic blasts that I face whenever I go outdoors OK. And it's nice to see people: two of the three roommates back today, seeing (at different points) Molly and Peter at Annenberg, the first meeting of my Italian section. And I got some ellipticalling in, which was nice. We'll see how reading period and exams end up actually going, though.
I'm definitely not adapting well to this climate. According to the Weather Channel, it's currently 10 degrees outside and "feels like" -4. I went outside like 1/2 an hour ago for dinner, and ran all the way back because it was so cold. That's one thing that will be good about being in an upper-class house: not having to trek all the way over to Annenberg. And, although we called Yard Ops today and a guy came by to fix the heat, he was like, "OK, I'll go check on something" and never came back. So our room is still like 60 degrees. The hallway is actually slightly warmer.
But today did yield my first gazing expedition to the Fogg Museum (one of the art museums on campus). And I was assigned to write about a painting in the Impressionism room for my Italian thing, so I got to stare at the two Picassos, several Monets, Renoirs, Matisses, Toulouse-Lautrecs... it was pretty sweet : ) I really need to get over there more often, I'm thinking.
And also yesterday was incredible. So that kind of makes the piles of dirty snow and the arctic blasts that I face whenever I go outdoors OK. And it's nice to see people: two of the three roommates back today, seeing (at different points) Molly and Peter at Annenberg, the first meeting of my Italian section. And I got some ellipticalling in, which was nice. We'll see how reading period and exams end up actually going, though.