Allison emailed me these the other day, and since my car nearly got swallowed by a pothole that had magically appeared in the road sometime in the past three days, it seems apt to post them.

( Pothole haikus )

It's cold out.  How cold, I cannot say.  Vista/my desktop tells me it is -10 F.  Google says it is -2 F.  This website says it is 0.9 F but the windchill makes it 2 F (wtf?).

Either way, it's cold outside.

Weather man on channel 11: A car was blown off the road into a farm field, indicating that the storm has the potential for strong winds.

It's April 26th.  And it's 33 degrees F and snowing.

And they say global warming(/cooling) doesn't exist...

It's 30 degrees F outside, and sunny.  Quite windy, but that doesn't matter because the snow is melting and it's sunny and it smells like spring.  I took my behavior test and I think I did really well, and I'm going to a play tonight with a friend who I haven't seen in months, and will probably see another friend there, and I'm going out again ( Read more... )

It's thundering, in the middle of February.  It's -9 F outside.

Weird.

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At work.  It's raining.  I've been indoors an hour and a half and I'm still not quite dry.  I just grabbed my (water resistant) windbreaker this morning, because a) it didn't look like it was raining that hard, and b) I don't like my raincoat (and don't really know where it is).  My mother bought it for me ages ago, and it's too much big on me, and ( Read more... )

My friend posted about experiencing her first real blizzard.  (She's relatively new to Minnesota.)  St. Kate's and the U of M canceled class half way through the day due to the snow.  A bunch of schools there have already canceled school for tomorrow ( Read more... )

I"m not happy it's getting colder here, but this is still amusing:

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