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[velvetpage]

I was planning to hit the teacher store for a resource about Ancient Civilizations - specifically, Mesopotamia - but the snow is falling and blowing out there to reduce visibility as much as it can. Hence, I'm not leaving the comfort of my home today.

I wrote another five hundred words. Now I'm going downstairs to read more Patrick O'Brian in an effort to learn enough ship vocabulary to write with some level of intelligence and believability about life on a pirate ship. After that, I'll try to apply what I know, writing a scene where Treeden sits in the rigging and plays with his air spells which will soon save his life. I'll probably write it by hand, because Piet will be on the computer writing his contract all afternoon.

Elizabeth is under the weather, I feel like I might be soon, and all in all, I'm glad we don't have to go anywhere tonight. None of us got much sleep last night, because she kept waking up and calling us.

I've just changed my mind. I think I'll try a nap for a while. Five hours' sleep isn't enough for a Saturday.

Comments

[georgiaskydiver.livejournal.com]

Naptime sounds like a great idea!! Especially if it is cold and nasty outside. Please take some pictures of the snow for us down here in the South.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

There you go!

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

Brrrrr. On the form of the past few years we in London will get about an hours actual snowfall sometime in the next 4 - 5 weeks and the M25 and North London will be rendered helpless.

Wow!

[georgiaskydiver.livejournal.com]

That looks pretty serious. How much snow do you have?

Thanks for the picture.

Re: Wow!

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

Actually, the picture is deceptive. It's taken from the office window, which is on the second floor and overlooks the roof of the back room addition. The snow is not, in fact, piled up to the top railing of any decks.

It looks to me, as I glance out the same window, like we have about 10 or 12 centimetres - 4 or 5 inches. It's very blustery, though, and it's hard, cold snow. So, while it may be 4 inches in a sheltered corner of my backyard, it will be more like two feet in a wide-open corner of the school yard across the street as the wind sculpts it into drifts.

Seriously, I would rather live in a place where I get snowed in once or twice per winter than live in a place where hurricanes turning houses into kindling was not uncommon. It's all relative, right? If this storm had happened yesterday, I'd have gotten a day off out of it, with pay. Not bad, really.