snow and stuff ~

[lookingland]

hot cocoa and grilled cheese for breakfast. i guess, after an interminable summer and only the briefest of autumns, winter is finally here. we had a nice heavy snowfall yesterday and today it's blue and silent. alaska looks better and better all the time. i have my last weekend class (ever) today. the campus is gorgeous in the snow. i wanted to share this picture of the duck pond so you could see it. i didn't take the picture, but that's what it looks like right now.


i have been trying to catch up on my f-list, but i fear i won't, so please let me know if i missed anything huge in my absence (i feel as though i have been gone forever). congratulations to all you NaNo winners and attempters! bravo on many many words! i'm hoping to finish my school stuff this week so i can get back to writing. classes end on the 12th, but i am ready to be done now.

it occurred to me, going through my to-do list that i was hoping to finish a more complete, coherent draft of In the Pursuance of Said Conspiracy by the end of december. i don't know that i will, but i would like to get that pile of mess organized in some fashion to work on it during the holiday break. of course, it's been so long since i touched it, i feel like i am going to have to start all over again to refresh myself with the research. ugh. i knew that would happen. details, man. endless details.

in reading: for the 50bookchallenge:

no. 62 ~ Sin Killer by Larry McMurtry. i read Lonesome Dove nearly twenty years ago (the fact that i can even say this makes me cringe and my paperbackcopy is piss yellow from acidity). i thought i would give another of his books a try. this one is the first in a tetralogy about the Berrybender clan. Tasmin Berrybender is the daughter of a wealthy english lord who takes his family on a wild hunting trek in the west. she can't stand her own clan, so strikes out on her own and falls in with the Sin Killer, a white fella raised by both indians and a preacher, whose mix of holy terror and no-nonsense frontiersmanship is both dangerous and charming. the book is absurd (and meant to be: it's a parody of western mythology of sorts). not sure how much i like it. well enough to want to read the second one, i guess, but i'm not madly in love with it.

i guess it might be obvious that i have fallen out of posting on lj. i expect i will be back to it once the semester is over. i am glad december is finally here. happy Advent to all of my Catholic flisters (and why not all you heathens and heretics as well!). you are all in my happy thoughts.

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Comments

[sparowe]

LOL Happy Advent to you, too. BTW, your breakfast sounds ideal... and your snow beats the rain/occasional freezing rain that we have here.

--oh, and as for huge... the annoucement's about a month old, but just in case: I'm moving to TN at the end of the month. :D

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

goodness, i don't know much about tennessee (you'll have to share all the details when you get there), but i expect you might have even less snow there?

p.s. thank you for having a sense of humor. most people know i have no tolerance for intolerance, but i also sometimes find the rhetoric of political-correctness as absurd and insulting as the slurs it's trying to euphemize.

[sparowe]

Where I'll be, yes. My brother was excited by the half inch that they got last year, greatly amusing his wife--who is from Oregon. :)

P.S. Agreed.

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

ha ~ ! well i am sure the lack of snow will not dampen your experience too much!

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[amberdulen.livejournal.com]

Hey man, we rebel Protestants celebrate Advent too. :P

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

well natch!

i included you and all my other prottie flisters under "heretics". with great love, from your Romish, papist co-hort.

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[groundbyground.livejournal.com]

Where is your college?

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

minnesota ~ where is doesn't snow nearly enough.

: o p

[geckobird.livejournal.com]

Snow! So utterly beautiful. ^_^ We didn't get much snow down here. But we did get ice! In fact, our driveway is a giant sheet of ice, and I've been trying all day to melt it with the ice melt Calcium Chloride that Dad had in the garage, but it's so cold out there, that I'm having no luck.

So we're stuck for the time being since I can't drive the car out of the driveway on ice... (O_O how scary that would be!) It stinks because we're missing Advent Mass! *teary face*

Also, one of my friends has a roommate from Alaska, and she said that it isn't as cold in Alaska as it is here. Since it's more of a dry cold, while down here we have the biting winds and humidity that makes it feel a heck of a lot colder than it really is. I thought that was really, really interesting and fun to know. ^_^ Since I'm moving to Alaska in a few months...

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

i am so jealous of your impending move to alaska (take me with you!!!!)

i may be job hunting that way soon, we'll see.

sorry you're missing the Advent mass ~ be careful on those icy roads!

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[geckobird.livejournal.com]

Aw! I'd take you with me if I could! We'd take Alaska by storm! xD My main concern though is finding an apartment there and a roommate. ^-^

I shall definitely drive carefully! Though I'm hoping by tomorrow the roads will have been thoroughly salted! ^^

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

Hot cocoa and grilled cheese? Breakfast of champions, I'd say. lol...

That is a freaking beautiful picture. Wow. Thanks for sharing. Now I've got campus-envy. Mine isn't nearly that beautiful. lol...

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

well it's a tiny college, so it can afford to be gorgeous ~ hahahahaha!

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[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I'm so jealous. lol... I would like to go to a school that has the money to make itself beautiful like that! lol..

[utter-scoundrel.livejournal.com]

You got snow. And you appear to live in a very rural area of Minnesota. Hence, the effect is pretty.
We got snow. Mixed with acid rain. In the ugly metropolis that is Uptown Chicago. And the city, in it's typical we-don't-follow-weather-forecasts attitude didn't have any salt trucks ready, so all the pedestrians were slippin and slidin like penguins on ice skates.
And Alaska? How dare you. Now I'll definitely never get to see you again...

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

actually, the campus is in St. Paul, which isn't rural at all ~ just really well groomed. i guess i can appreciate, however, that the city isn't so lovely.

i certainly hope, if i do take a job far far away that we take advantage of our proximity at least once before i go! i'm not trying to move to the outer edges of the universe. it's just too hot in the continental states these days.

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So pretty

[(Anonymous)]

I've sketched in some Victorian skaters in my mind's eye.

I can't seem to form any thoughts beyond that but I send wishes for MORE SNOW for da boo-boo.

moo

Re: So pretty

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

oooo skaters would be jolly on the ice ~ with ermine muffs and fuzzy boot skates.

we have snow snow snow and more snow!

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