winter at last
well, apparently snow is rare here. and we've had an incredibly unusually mild fall and early winter. so, it was somewhat thrilling to see snow dump down this morning. it's already gone, what with the rain that followed, but it was nice while it lasted.
finally broke down and closed my office blinds today. the wintry wind is blowing in exactly the right direction to find the drafty holes in my windows. the radiator can't keep up. the blinds will only make it marginally better. i bundled up today, so i'm situated in that uncomfortable in-between state where i'm over-warm, but my fingers and nose are like ice.
ah, feck it... you know, i often read over what i've written to make sure 1) no grammatical or spelling errors (which i still miss at times), 2) my post makes sense (at least to me), and 3) it's not horribly boring. talking about the weather and my drafty office has got to be on the top ten of boring topics list.
so no more on that. or on the grading or the deadlines. or on the boxes of books that i need to transport somehow from my home to my office. though all those things are what i'm thinking about.
so instead, i'll move from mundane to inane. after 5 or 6 cups of coffee yesterday, i still couldn't bring myself to wake up enough to work, much less find motivation. when the soda machine didn't dispense any diet coke, i was faced with the only option to drink something with sugar in it. there's this kind of energy drink here called "lucozade." you can tell which of your students are hungover by who is drinking lucozade at 9am.
rather than going with regular coke, i decided to try this so-called energy drink.
absolute, undeniable, thoroughly disgusting shite. i almost spit the first mouthful out, but i was meeting with one of my phd students. as it was, he got a good chuckle out of my string of expletives and responded with, "never had lucozade before, is it?"
i think someone ought to be shot for daring to call it "citrus orange flavored carbonated beverage."
but then the most amazing thing happened. about 30 minutes later, i felt better (physically) than i have felt in about a year. today, the porter (a friend, too) said that lucozade used to be a medicine you could only get from a pharmacy.
huh. go figure.
if it didn't have so much sugar, i might be hooked. hell, even with the amount of sugar i might be hooked. but, i'll stick to coffee and reserve the jet fuel for the special occasions.
finally broke down and closed my office blinds today. the wintry wind is blowing in exactly the right direction to find the drafty holes in my windows. the radiator can't keep up. the blinds will only make it marginally better. i bundled up today, so i'm situated in that uncomfortable in-between state where i'm over-warm, but my fingers and nose are like ice.
ah, feck it... you know, i often read over what i've written to make sure 1) no grammatical or spelling errors (which i still miss at times), 2) my post makes sense (at least to me), and 3) it's not horribly boring. talking about the weather and my drafty office has got to be on the top ten of boring topics list.
so no more on that. or on the grading or the deadlines. or on the boxes of books that i need to transport somehow from my home to my office. though all those things are what i'm thinking about.
so instead, i'll move from mundane to inane. after 5 or 6 cups of coffee yesterday, i still couldn't bring myself to wake up enough to work, much less find motivation. when the soda machine didn't dispense any diet coke, i was faced with the only option to drink something with sugar in it. there's this kind of energy drink here called "lucozade." you can tell which of your students are hungover by who is drinking lucozade at 9am.
rather than going with regular coke, i decided to try this so-called energy drink.
absolute, undeniable, thoroughly disgusting shite. i almost spit the first mouthful out, but i was meeting with one of my phd students. as it was, he got a good chuckle out of my string of expletives and responded with, "never had lucozade before, is it?"
i think someone ought to be shot for daring to call it "citrus orange flavored carbonated beverage."
but then the most amazing thing happened. about 30 minutes later, i felt better (physically) than i have felt in about a year. today, the porter (a friend, too) said that lucozade used to be a medicine you could only get from a pharmacy.
huh. go figure.
if it didn't have so much sugar, i might be hooked. hell, even with the amount of sugar i might be hooked. but, i'll stick to coffee and reserve the jet fuel for the special occasions.