Sticking my head up like Punxsatawny Phil

[katallison]

So. It is very, very, very cold here. Went down below zero Friday night, and has stayed there continuously since, and is not going to get *above* zero until, I dunno, maybe Tuesday. Minus eleven right now, with a -40ish windchill, and forecast to be -17 tonight. I have not been out of the house since I got home on Friday evening, and I am not going to leave it until it gets by god above zero again, which means I'll be working from home tomorrow, and this is not an ideal solution, because when it's this cold I can't really get my place very warm, but going someplace that *is* warm would require, y'know, going outside. And attempting to start the car. Or standing and waiting for the bus. And I am not up to it.

In other news -- hi. (*g*) Yes, I have been absent from these parts since -- uh, sometime last year, though reading LJ fitfully and sporadically. I am fine, I should add, and life is fine, apart from the strange whatever-it-is that blocks me from being able to actually write down any of the words that go on in my head, and which has been afflicting me for months now. This has, needless to say, kept me from composing the Grand Summative Essay of Ruminative Reflection and Updatingness with which to jump back in the soup; so I'll go with a brief, unilluminating grump about the weather instead.

Comments

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

yes - 32 Fahrenheit is freezing. And I'm significantly south of her in latitude, and it's -17 here today.

Whee!

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Er, just so I'm really clear -

+32 is freezing. :)

[ratcreature]

Yikes, that's cold too. I think I'm further North in latitude (about equal to southern Alaska), but thanks to the Gulfstream and the generally milder martime climates, I have all the darkness with none of the cold. *hearts oceans*

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the thing to avoid is being in the middle of a very large continental land mass. I'm actually at just about the same latitude as Venice and Bordeaux, but (clearly) just a wee bit chillier. *g*

[ratcreature]

Just a wee bit. But at least you still have the good daylight hours.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Man, the Gulf Stream confuses *everything* about latitude, doesn't it. Hmph.

Brrr.

[ratcreature]

Well, I've read somewhere that a lot of it is just the maritime climate and the dominant wind directions and such that make northern Europe warmer and just a few degrees are due to the gulfstream proper, but still. I hope those who fear global warming might mess it up are wrong. *clings to her climate of moderate summers and winters*