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[cherry]

I am Saskatchewan born and raised, and have lived my entire life here. Saskatchewan has a reputation as one of the inclement weather capitals of the world.

I tell you this so that when I say that this is one heck of a blizzard, it will have the proper impact.



This is what it looks like outside right now. (Image is stolen from the university webcam, click for full size.) I got lost in the alley on the way to my bus stop this morning because it was dark, and the snow was blowing straight up so that visibility was less than five feet.

I have talked to a number of people who have been with the university for a great number of years, and they cannot remember entire colleges just closing down. It is not a thing we do in Saskatchewan. At this point, everything's just been out-right cancelled. They're shutting down the transit system soon, and I waited for 45 minutes for my bus home, only to be forced to take one that drops off three blocks farther from my home. Frost-bitten legs, yay! I didn't know wool scarves would actually freeze to your skin, but you learn something new ever day. Possibly I should not have gone to school.

The goods news is that the snow is supposed to let up by tomorrow, so that we only have -45 with wind.

So, like sprat, I am taking this opportunity to share some songs that I love at the moment.

Twenty Years - Placebo. I know -- I wouldn't have thought I'd like Placebo either, but I love this song. Haunting. (We need to concentrate on more than meets the eye.)

Dirty Jeans - Magic Dirty. Australian upbeat rock. (Had to let you know that you're beautiful/And you make me go and/Even if you're taken that's no moves I'm makin'.)

Anger as Beauty - Hawksley Workman. Alt rock. You love him, or you hate him. (You're caught up in the only place/Where the honesty of fear/Makes a battle like a song)

Highway 7 and Electrik Heat: the Seekwill by K-Os. Instrumentally dense hip-hop. The first is reflective and melodic, the second makes you want to move.

Comments

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Just so you know, this convo is making Gmail tempt me. You know what it brought up? www.virtualtea.com which has many, many delicious looking varieties of green and black and white teas, but also fruit (and herbal) teas (http://www.virtualtea.com/vt/teasherbfruit.html#fruit).

I did not know that you could make pina colada tea.

[sprat.livejournal.com]

Hee--me too! I'm getting all kinds of fancy chai tea ads. Evil gmail. Maybe we should make more iPhone references or something. iPhoneiPhoneiPhone! *g*

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

Dude, that one showed up at the top as the clips bit, even when I'm not in that email.

iPhoneiPhoneiPhoneiPhone!

Oh, boy, do I want one. Or a second external. Or more RAM.

... I am such a dork.

[sprat.livejournal.com]

*sigh* Technology is so pretty. And so sadly expensive.

Futureshop had all kinds of cheap post-Christmas stuff when I was there a couple of days ago. Not sure if RAM was on sale, but externals were for sure...

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

I don't need, precisely. I just really, really want. Vidding is eating my HD.

Heh. And no one even knows that I am vidding, because I am seekritive like that. Though I am actually thinking of releasing the Avatar one into the wild without a proper beta. On the one hand, I think it shows to an incredible degree than the one has had a technical beta, but on the other -- I really kind of want to release something, and most of the vids in that fandom are protracted fight clips thrown together.

[sprat.livejournal.com]

Do it, do it! I haven't actually watched any of the eps you gave me yet, but I liked the vid--it was fast-moving and eye-catching, and it had enough of a story arc that it made me *want* to watch the show, which are all good things for a vid to be and do, I think.

[cherryice.livejournal.com]

It's just that I look at it, and it feels incomplete somehow. There's at least one passage that I am just. not. happy. with, and I lack the perspective to say why.

But on the other hand... wanna post something fannish and (hopefully) get feedback, whaaah. *whines*

PS: OMG so cold out.