How to Survive the Blizzard

The blizzard: a wind chill of -10 to -30, with wind speed (from NW) at 21 mph, gusting to 38 mph. The cold is so intense it aches in my bones. Professor Poe, in conference, admits that with the exception of more snow falling in Russia this is pretty much as bad as the weather gets in Moscow.

The conclusion: stay in, skip class, write apologetic emails to professors, make Mexican cocoa with a little Becherovka, which tastes like Christmas, and watch the BBC's awesome Planet Earth with friends, only venturing forth to maybe get cheap Chinese later. I like the jungle episode. When it's cold, watching warm stuff makes me feel less fugue-y.

Lately I've made rogan josh with draegonhawke and some awesome plantains fried in coconut oil and lightly dusted with kosher salt, dipped in sour cream. It was my recipe, not the above, but that's just got pretty pictures of Plantains ripening. Foodalicious. God, I'd make those plantains again right now if the grocery co-op wasn't a block and a half away: too far.

OMG Planet Earth: the slow motion of frogs jumping OVER AND OVER is the best thing to ever happen in my life!

draegonhawke Also got me some caramel tea. Delicious to the max. Thanks!

AUGH! Maggots, STOP! STOP TIME LAPSE PHOTOGRAPHY! Ewwwwwwww.

Though the bit about ant possession/body snatching by corticep (sp?) fungi is interesting, in a disgusting sort of way. I so have to write a short story about that for velourmane's class, in which four of us are assisting-- she wants something specfic'y that the kids can crit, b/c she's trying a multi-tiered approach between people of somewhat different experience levels. Which is kind of cool, but makes me squirm awkwardly at the idea of me considering myself as working on a different tier than anyone else, which seems so terribly elitist to think, but is possibly a productive way of conceptualizing how we'd be interacting? Maybe?

Also: Sugar Gliders STILL rock.

Also Also: I'm on a big quest to watch all this Harryhausen stop motion animation stuff, due to gritsinmisery's v. helpful rec. of good ones to check out. Yet another obsessive drive to watch everything about a topic: Netflix is so my enabler.

How to Survive the Blizzard

The blizzard: a wind chill of -10 to -30, with wind speed (from NW) at 21 mph, gusting to 38 mph. The cold is so intense it aches in my bones. Professor Poe, in conference, admits that with the exception of more snow falling in Russia this is pretty much as bad as the weather gets in Moscow.

The conclusion: stay in, skip class, write apologetic emails to professors, make Mexican cocoa with a little Becherovka, which tastes like Christmas, and watch the BBC's awesome Planet Earth with friends, only venturing forth to maybe get cheap Chinese later. I like the jungle episode. When it's cold, watching warm stuff makes me feel less fugue-y.

Lately I've made rogan josh with draegonhawke and some awesome plantains fried in coconut oil and lightly dusted with kosher salt, dipped in sour cream. It was my recipe, not the above, but that's just got pretty pictures of Plantains ripening. Foodalicious. God, I'd make those plantains again right now if the grocery co-op wasn't a block and a half away: too far.

OMG Planet Earth: the slow motion of frogs jumping OVER AND OVER is the best thing to ever happen in my life!

draegonhawke Also got me some caramel tea. Delicious to the max. Thanks!

AUGH! Maggots, STOP! STOP TIME LAPSE PHOTOGRAPHY! Ewwwwwwww.

Though the bit about ant possession/body snatching by corticep (sp?) fungi is interesting, in a disgusting sort of way. I so have to write a short story about that for velourmane's class, in which four of us are assisting-- she wants something specfic'y that the kids can crit, b/c she's trying a multi-tiered approach between people of somewhat different experience levels. Which is kind of cool, but makes me squirm awkwardly at the idea of me considering myself as working on a different tier than anyone else, which seems so terribly elitist to think, but is possibly a productive way of conceptualizing how we'd be interacting? Maybe?

Also: Sugar Gliders STILL rock.

Also Also: I'm on a big quest to watch all this Harryhausen stop motion animation stuff, due to gritsinmisery's v. helpful rec. of good ones to check out. Yet another obsessive drive to watch everything about a topic: Netflix is so my enabler.