snow_emergency unhinged if snowfall exceeds four inches, do not park your car on the street, so snow plows can clear the roads and stuff in a city where most people park their cars on the street, just another money grubbing city ordinance. build some more condos on parking lots, make some more ticket revenue. there was a squirrel chilling on my porch licking up the new snowflakes. while i am usually inclined to chase them away in the noisiest way possible, the little dude looked at me with such a despondent flash, i just shut the fuck up. eventually he scampered away. no matter what way you walk, the wind is always blowing in your face. 071201 ... unhinged icicles on eyelashes snowflakes stuck to every warm surface not a single salt truck how the fuck did people live around here before central heating? 071201 ... unhinged but i am inclined to do it old school a warm body to cuddle up next to 071201 ... pete unhinged, in may cases old school is the best school. 071201 ... pete has to learn how to spell again many case many many many not may 071201 ... argh many cases i hope this lack of spelling doesn't ruin something beautiful 071201 ... unhinged and i'm sure you my candian friend understand how unbelievable cold hands are on warm lower backs up sweaters and long underwear snuggled up under a down comforter body heat is the best heat there are a lot of fall babies in wisconsin body heat is no secret around here 071201 ... unhinged cold hands turn me on in a freudian kind of way has always lived where it snows 071201 ... no reason storm's a-brewin' interesting the sense of minor foreboding before a storm more snow falls and streets become more silent taxis are fewer and farther between the air is freezing and people seek refuge in their warm places a real kind of winter 071201 ... Doar oh my_deity I could lay here, and forget all I know. . 071201 ... pete the beauty and power of winter is lost on so many. the cold meeting the warmth, it's a lingering promise too often unfulfilled these days. left waiting, suggested, and passed by. is an autumn baby. 071202 ... unhinged and now it is a slush emergency since the snow has turned to rain. oh double blah. conceived in the coldest months, scorpios are the most overtly sexual sign in the zodiac. a lot of internal heat to make up for the external freezing? is also an autumn baby 071202 ... unhinged winter has always been oddly comforting to me especially during the worst years of my depression. and then of course the sledding and hot chocolate and making christmas cookies and decorating the tree and the smell of my mom's homemade applesauce invading the house of my childhood. the puffy alien snowsuits and boots of the 80s, the welcome routine interruption of snow days. on_contentment i suppose there are plenty of awesome things about winter. i did have a strong urge to roll around in the freshly fallen snow before the stinking rain started yesterday. snowball fights yes those are still quite fun 071202 ... pete the forecast is for up to 45cm by tomorrow afternoon. i bought a new scarf to celebrate. 071202 ... unhinged 45cm......? i suck at conversions 071202 ... ever dumbening i think that translates to about 57 degrees in san francisco. the hrc store on castro had a little snow machine working on friday. 071202 ... ! braggart! 071202 ... pete erm.. half a metre, so ... a foot and a half~ish. it didn't seem to materialise though it is still snowing and will continue into tomorrow 071203 ... unhinged someday. someday i tell you, i will live where it doesn't snow without the assistance of machines. 071203 ... epitome of incomprehensibility In Montreal, it's been snowing pretty well continuously since yesterday... 30 centimetres are expected... that's 1 foot, or the size of a ruler. (I've always liked rulers. Especially the flexible plastic kind you can bend back and send hurtling across a 4th grade classroom. Provided you happen to be a 4th grader--such behaviour by teachers is not encouraged.) Why am I thinking about classrooms? Well, my brother's school is closed, the high school FACE is closed, John Abbott is closed, but I had class this morning. Universities I guess are sacred. If Concordia was picked up in a tornado and dropped in the Land of Oz, I'm pretty sure classes would continue as usual. "We're talking about Saussure's linguistic theories. Please ignore the squeaking midgets at the window." 071203 ... WARNING! SOMEONE'S BEEN CASTING ICE_3 AGAIN! 071203 ... pete We definitely got the storm. It's been snowing for close to a full day now, and is forecast to stop sometime tomorrow evening. The trail onto campus across a field was forming a trench as single-filed students trudged up and down a beaten path, huddled beneath toques and scarfs. 071203 ... unhinged thanks for the heads up pete; i was expecting all this snow because of you. ;-) at least this snow didn't have that crazy wind. it was like living in a snowglobe. the streetlights made the snowflakes sparkle like glitter. there should have been sleigh bells or something. tink tink tink 071205 ... unhinged and still more no end in sight 071206 ... unhinged holy freaking shit it is the fourth snowstorm in eleven days (maybe fifth, i've already lost count) this is shaping up to be a damn snowy december 071211 ... pete more snow here too 071211 ... pSyche two inches of ice. and it's ruining my finals. I just want to go home. it's miserably cold. 071211 ... pete there's a certain beauty to the way snow looks when instead of falling it blows horizontally or, even, back towards the sky. 071216 ... no reason apparently this is going to be the biggest storm in 60 years i now prefer going out in it to hibernating away from it i guess i like to feel it 071216 ... no reason crazy to think it's not even officially winter yet 071216 ... unhinged it snowed ALL day yesterday 071216 ... pete walking to school today was a bit of an adventure. some of the sidewalks were plowed. were they weren't it was usually on a side street, so walking down the road wasn't bad, but then i got to the point where the road was crazy busy and dangerous with snowdrifts up to my thigh. i'm happy i didn't fall over running through that. 071217 ... no reason a lot of schools today were canceled 080201 ... past it keeps falling. they said on the radio not to go out. i spent less than a minute outside today, still in my pjs, running to the other door to the apartments in this building (shop-top style) to put my rent in the dropbox. got some strange looks on the street, those questioning eyes "who is this strange young man running around downtown in slippers and pajamas in the middle of the a blizzard?" 080201 ... unhinged holy shit batman it's the worst blizzard of the winter and i'm about to go out in it...hehehehehehe 080206 ... unhinged (my work is closed today. it's been a long time since i had a snow_day ; i wanna go out and make snow_angels ) 080206 ... past the municipal workers in my hometown have been on strike for two weeks. the schools have been closed for 10 days straight. my parents had to expressly request for the street to be cleared by private contractors, with the city picking up the bill, because they were worried when a fire truck got stuck in the snow (there was no fire). here, though, we have a lot of snow, but not so much. no strike either. 080216 ... unhinged how the fuck do you get your car stuck in both directions at a 90 degree angle to the curb? 080216 ... past answer: 1 metre of snow, 384 hours since the last plow. 080216 ... past on wednesday we received 30 cm of snow. yesterday it started snowing again. we're at about 25 since the storm started, and it's set to reach 50cm by the time it ends tomorrow. that'll bring us within striking distance of the highest recorded snow fall in the city's recorded history. my pedestrian ways take me out into the snow, there's no way to avoid it. but it's beautiful. gently falling, blindingly white. sharing secret smiles with the few strangers i pass in the street as we //know// the frigid beauty of the season. 080308 ... unhinged they all called me when i got 13 inches. 20 inches holy_shit it's been a record breaking winter is it over yet? 080308 ... pobodys nerfect i think i live in pasts' general neck of the woods, because we were slated to get roughly the same snowfall (between 30 and 40 cm; possibly more). It's been snowing since yesterday. =0/ I went to shovel some snow earlier (just enough to keep a clear path so as not to get trapped indoors), and it was ice raining/snowing at the time. Ugh, lifting that snow was like lifting huge shovel-fulls of wet sand--just incredibly heavy and exhausting. I'm gonna hurt something awful tomorrow. =0( 080308 ... unhinged are you fucking kidding me? it's been kinda spring like around here for a week; and almost all the snow was gone. and now there's about to be nine more inches on the ground. snow combined with this horrible cold that's working it's way out of me at a snail's pace are making me want to break shit. 080321 ... past environment canada predicts up to 6 more weeks of winter... 080322 ... ever dumbening it was summer in san francisco today. beautiful people sitting in parks as i stroll up hayes across castro and down duboce. 080322 ... unhinged why do you people in california have to say shit like that? 'it's sunny here. it's beautiful here. snow? what's snow? it's so cold here today...it's like 30 degrees.' we know. it's beautiful in california. thanks. (it was actually sunny here today too. as for it being warm or dry enough to go strolling in the park, i guess that won't be happening any time soon.) 080322 ... ever dumbening hey, i pay 1350 for a studio apartment, so i'm gonna live up every damn second. fifteen minutes in the sun costs me like 75 bucks. of course i'm going to flaunt it. if i bought a porsche, i'd drive the shit out of it. right? suuuuun lovin'. 080322 ... past -15, -20 in the wind. mentally prepping myself for a nice long walk in the sun. 080323 ... µ we made a snowman today. 080323 ... unhinged i think i might just be willing to pay that much for no winter; my shoulder and my mood swings would definitely thank me 080323 ... unhinged already? really?!! pout whimper whine i'm not ready for this shit 081026 ... unhinged and the world in milwaukee screeches to a grinding halt. the sidewalks are like hallways made of snow. the front door of my apartment doesn't open all the way. the snow on the roof comes up above the bottom of my windows. i think i am quite literally snowed in. 081219 what's it to you? who go blather from