Snow Day

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Monday. Snow. The Snowmageden. Or the Apocalypse. Or, if you said the city would use salt, why didn't the city use salt. Or, if you want every response to inclement weather to be botched, keep cutting the city and state funding. Or, maybe just a bonus school holiday.

It is rather picturesque, especially on campus.

"But don't listen to Captain Ozone or Knight Owl, police were told. They're apparently not part of the group."

'Nuff said, no?


In case you'd like to hear more, though.

On the inaccuracies of the world of Seattle Grace

Before moving to the Seattle area, I knew that Grey's Anatomy did not depict the real Seattle. The one and only bar they ever go to (in fact, the only place beside the hospital they go) looks more like the bar near the Tulane Medical School than any other bar I've ever been too (also called Joe's, in fact, and closed post-Katrina). Last night's episode, however, when the group commuted to work near dawn and then home at 6pm evidently pre-dusk was beyond the pale. When is it supposed to be? Well before 5pm yesterday it was dark as midnight!

Things that aren't clothes

The weather is changing, for the worse, and it's brought out some interesting interpretations on "winter wear" particularly in the U-District, not even getting into the popularity of hosiery with back seams worn with shorts or summer skirts, which I don't really understand - why bother with managing a back seam (which does require some supervision to keep straight) if you're not really bothering to manage/supervise any other aspect of your person? Turns out, back seams definitely look trashy instead of sexy when paired with a bubble skirt AND running shoes. I surmise the thought process was, hmm, I'm cold and looking frumpy - backseam tights to the rescue!

But, more to the point of not clothes:
A stuffed Finding Nemo-type fish is not a hat. I get that the furry caps with ears and sometimes tails and claws that look like muppet pelts on occassion are actually hats, but I'm really not sure that Finding Nemo ever had a line of stuffed toys/hats. Maybe they did. Maybe this person was just being innovated with leftover stock. Still wasn't a hat.

Control-top pantyhose are not pants. The darker portion around your nether region is not intended to replace or otherwise usurp the role of a skirt, pants, shorts or the bottom half of your dress (you know, the part that covers your nether regions). There, it needed to be said.

FYI, guy that plays with the glass ball in front of different classroom buildings is still shirtless at 43 F, in a cold drizzle.

3.11.10

Saw what was clearly an undergraduate student pick through a garbage can at the bus stop. Then two shoes, that didn't match, in the middle of a side street as we drove past - accident or do you think they were thrown out of one of the apartment windows.

Unfortunately, not much interesting to see or do otherwise. Over the weekend Saturday was rainy and Sunday I actually did do my reading. Monday a passing car covered me in water on my way to the bus stop, so my yelling obscenities on the side of the street probably would have made it into the blog if I'd witnessed it instead of participated in the spectacle.

Maybe I'll get lucky and there will be something exciting will happen to someone else while I'm watching tomorrow. Sunny weather is forecast for the whole week, and that seems to bring out some colorful behavior.