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Apparently, the Snowpocalypse is coming (again?!), and I am displeased. Yesterday was so beautiful and warm that if I closed my eyes and didn't breathe too deeply (the air still smells like winter) I could just barely pretend it was spring. And now the air is thick with snowflakes and we are hearing tales of a Snow Hurricane and argh. Stop it!

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All right, universe: I still dislike winter. It's cold and claustrophobic and forces trousers upon me. And this massive snowstorm that is turning the entire nation into a replica of Caradhras is causing all sorts of trouble, not least making it nearly impossible for me to open my front door.

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Let me tell you about winter, o flist. Winter is horrible. Winter should be banned. Winter is all about drafts in the house and cold coming up out of the floor and twisting around your ankles like a ghastly boneless cat made of coldness; it is about never seeing the sun again, ever, and on the few occasions upon which it can be glimpsed, it is very ( Read more... )

This morning I woke to snow. (More properly, this morning I woke to Leandra screaming and howling because she had poured a bottle of glue over her head and needed to be bathed vigorously. But also there was snow.) I was very, very cross about it for some hours, although it has been awfully pretty, and it isn't sticking really at all... and late ( Read more... )

I've just been out on the lawn, basking in the sun like some sort of cat or reptile or what have you; I have never been so ravenous for sunlight. My skin grows impatient when the sun ducks behind a cloud for a few moments. (I am wearing this, which is very apt for daydreaming in the sun on a day full of breezes, not to mention listening to acres of ( Read more... )

The air is very lovely today, thick with warmth and sunshine -- it had rained from my birthday through Saturday, and while I enjoyed that very much, I did miss the sun. Oddly, this year I can't seem to get enough of the sunlight. I keep thinking of Robin McKinley's Sunshine, and how after her ordeal Sunshine would spend hours lying out of doors, ( Read more... )

You guys, I have been reading frenetically over the last several weeks. It is delicious, although occasionally disconcerting -- there were a couple of days when I was so locked into a pair of books that I could not drag myself away from them, and so did hardly anything but read. The catalyst, I think, is suddenly (and at last) having so many new ( Read more... )

I had some really fascinating storypeople in the store today: a middle-aged woman with a shock of purple hair; a comfortable Indian couple who found the American tradition of pinching people not wearing green on St Patrick's Day wondrously hilarious; a shy, pretty young woman looking for something new to read. She told me she'd loved Twilight (I ( Read more... )

I've just got back from the library, and it is the first time in months that I have walked, not run, there and back, braced and bundled against fierce cold. Yes: we're having a warm spot! I am giddy with it! I have worn skirts two days in the row, almost the first skirts I've worn in two months! My dresses have been hanging forlornly in the closet ( Read more... )