Winter
It's been a long time since a post, I've been busy gorging myself on food in preperation for my hibernation. I don't care what the calandar says, it is winter.
Things do not look good
http://www.14850.com/downtown/cold.html
~Things to make you nervous about the coming winter in Ithaca~
1. The outdoor parts of campus are empty, while the indoor hallways are packed. Many people have an anxious look on their face of impending doom.
2. When asked why the heat only turns on for parts of the night, my RA will respond "Don't worry, we'll need all the heat we can get soon enough."
3. Someone makes a comment about how people should pair up in fall to keep warm in winter . . . and nobody laughs.
4. They put salt on the ground to prevent ice . . .in mid-october
5. A newly highered weatherman kills himself
6. Like the Inuits have a thousand words for snow, in Ithaca they have a thousand words for frostbite.
7. There is such a thing as Clinical Seasonal Depression, caused by UV deficiency, a mildly common cause of death in Ithaca.
8. People say that the snow isn't half as bad as the other parts of winter, and wont tell you what the other parts are.
9. Rental cars come with a frost scraper, an ice pick, and a pistol with a single bullet in it.
10. And finally, all the shirts that used to say "Ithaca is Gorges" (a pun because we have a lot of gorges here) now all say "Ithaca is Cold"
http://www.t-shirtexpressions.com/gorgestshirts.htm#
(I wish that most of them weren't true)
Things do not look good
http://www.14850.com/downtown/cold.html
~Things to make you nervous about the coming winter in Ithaca~
1. The outdoor parts of campus are empty, while the indoor hallways are packed. Many people have an anxious look on their face of impending doom.
2. When asked why the heat only turns on for parts of the night, my RA will respond "Don't worry, we'll need all the heat we can get soon enough."
3. Someone makes a comment about how people should pair up in fall to keep warm in winter . . . and nobody laughs.
4. They put salt on the ground to prevent ice . . .in mid-october
5. A newly highered weatherman kills himself
6. Like the Inuits have a thousand words for snow, in Ithaca they have a thousand words for frostbite.
7. There is such a thing as Clinical Seasonal Depression, caused by UV deficiency, a mildly common cause of death in Ithaca.
8. People say that the snow isn't half as bad as the other parts of winter, and wont tell you what the other parts are.
9. Rental cars come with a frost scraper, an ice pick, and a pistol with a single bullet in it.
10. And finally, all the shirts that used to say "Ithaca is Gorges" (a pun because we have a lot of gorges here) now all say "Ithaca is Cold"
http://www.t-shirtexpressions.com/gorgestshirts.htm#
(I wish that most of them weren't true)