It's 35 degrees outside right now - it's the first time it's been above freezing since late January! Hopefully I'll get to dig my car out of the foot of snow that's accumulated around it since I got to drive it last. Brother needs to get to Target and get some groceries, yo ( Read more... )

So today is one of the first days in a long time when I've felt like myself - like my place in Rochester, with my group of friends, and how I was dealing with everything really jibed in a way that was natural and how things, i.e. myself, was supposed to be ( Read more... )

so i've mostly switched to drinking tea instead of coffee - usually the cheapest organic oolong from rishi, but on special occasions the super-nummy wild ti kwan yin tea that fleur de lune got me from the red & green tea company, which is packaged in what looks like a bamboo pipe bomb - an image that i think would definitely make the righteous ( Read more... )

Wow. The paper crunch this time is hitting me harder than usual, probably because I've changed programs, disciplines, and damned near everything else that was familiar about my comfy little life. Oh, and we're on the semester system, so I get to do 150% of the work I'm used to doing ( Read more... )

Well, in lieu of a good thesis, I got a white pre-Christmas.


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Today we've got snow that's actually not melting, but staying put as downy white stuff on the tops of bushes, cars, and the houses across the street. I feel like I'm in an overgrown food court doing holiday shopping - the snow doesn't seem real looking out of my window, since it's warm in here. I'll post pictures somewhere soon enough....

I just got back from listening to this organ, not this oneIf any of you come visit me in this cold, rainy/snowy, not-skateboard-friendly town, I'm going to insist on taking you to a concert there. Provided you come on the appropriate Sunday, of course. The organ's crazy! It's tuned in mean tone and you can really hear the difference between how ( Read more... )

Well, okay. It's not snow yet, but it's forecast for tonight and tomorrow morning. On www.weather.com right now there's radar showing it snowing way down to the southwest of here, but it's still just rain here for the moment. Go plug in zipcode 14607 if you feel like seeing what the non-California world gets to face in October instead of 78 ( Read more... )

It's towards the beginning of October, which to me usually means Santa Anas, chapped lips, wondering how silly it is to wear sweaters with flip-flops but doing it anyway, and worrying if the Santa Anas might blow over the plants on my balcony.

Today, however, a new meaning of early October:

37 degrees Farenheit.That's right, it's 37 degrees ( Read more... )

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