Made it through surprising well. Can't believe we still have power. I even slept through the worst of it.

Hope the rest of you are okay too!!!

ETA:( Current Power Outage Map for my area )

Just hanging around waiting for the show to start. And while I wait I'm queuing up some fic to read and I have some videos to share:

1) For zorb and lessthanpie: the making of OK GO's Muppet Theme Song video.

2) Take a drive through 1950s London.

See you on the other side!

I met kaalee and her students this morning to accompany them on a field trip. Two things of note: 1) they are as awesome as she says, and 2) she is as awesome with them as we all expected! I had two little boys, C and N, who were completely adorable and completely different. C is very curious and wanted to do a lot of exploring and N is sweet and ( Read more... )

What the fuckery is this? Punxsatawney Phil told us we were having an early spring. I am currently in the area that's due to get 4 to 8 inches of snow. NOT AMUSED ( Read more... )

I am watching The Weather Channel and it has just dawned on me!

We are having a MAJOR WEATHER EVENT and Jim Cantore is nowhere to be found.

I am highly annoyed by this! He's all over the hurricanes, but he can't be bothered with a blizzard!?

You are dead to me, Jim.

ETA: We got Mike Seidel, instead.

Today, I'm having the day I meant to have yesterday. Which is: I've made breakfast, tidied up the kitchen and family room, done three loads of laundry, changed the sheets on the bed, and done the prep work for dinner ( Read more... )

It's snowing and I have no where to be!

I slept until 9am, am still in my pjs, and am watching David Tennant in Hamlet in between bits of laundry and food/drink refills.

Oh, and there are brownies in my immediate future.

*burrows in*

Monday morning temp (61F) - This morning's temp (21F) = FUCKING COLD!!!!

I'm stuck in a senior management offsite today (cannot WAIT for my boss to come back!) so don't do anything fun until this afternoon.

I came across two articles today that I thought were worth sharing:

1) Firefox News (which is NOT the same people as Mozilla Firefox) gave their take on RaceFail: Privilege Goggles, Fandom, and Why This All Matters. Some really great points in there.

2) Slate's review of Elaine Showalter's "A Jury of Her Peers" which covers 250 American female ( Read more... )

Dear Mother Nature ( Read more... )