I was sore today and so darned sleepy (probably allergies) that I wasn’t worth much. We did run into old friends, had lunch with Kay. I’m still just exhausted, for no good reason, and had trouble breathing…just a little asthma, I think. No other reason for it.
The weather is what Jane calls ‘slushing’ on us. Not quite snow, too cold to be rain.
Jane is still battling the fan switch after her second trip to Lowe’s, who first sold her a broken already-been-returned 4-way switch, after the mistaken 3-way she got in Seattle. So back she went after a working 4-way switch, and now it wants to be soldered. She is still plugging away at it. Last night she borrowed a fan for her room, unable to sleep without one, and is functioning on too little sleep.
I, meanwhile, am taking Aleve for the stiffness I have—skating tends to bring this out. Since skates notoriously don’t travel well sideways, setting off on a new tangent means rotating your stepoff foot accurately to that direction and setting out on that lead. Well, my feet/legs/knees/hips aren’t too enthusiastic about a 45 degree angle to the other foot. But ya gotta. So I’m working on it. Had a little tendon soreness, which brought me off the ice 15 minutes early, but that’s not too bad. I’m getting steadier, but if you’d have asked me could I fall asleep on my feet, I might’ve said yes. I think it’s the weather that rolled in. It’s pretty chill out there, the rink was about 10 degrees colder than usual, and I just wanted to hibernate. Tomorrow I think I’ll wear my boot-high legwarmers over my tights.
For those of you who knit, they’re a cinch to make, and real nice in cold weather. Cast on 49 fat stitches, which will go around your ankle, knit one purl one for ribbing up to an inch, knit 2″ longer than kneecap to ankle, increasing stitches as you climb in proportion to how much room you need. When you reach the knee ribbing, again, knit one purl one (or two,as you please). Bind off, yarn stitch up the back, and you have very warm legs. Also works as sleeve-warmers, for those of you suffering from a 45 minute wait at the bus stop.
cj, please take it easy. A couple of weeks ago I had two days of aches, chills, and low-grade fever. This week I have had great fatigue, chills and fever, cough and sinus infection.
Is Jane alright or just distracted. No update on her blog.
What can I say? You are the cause of my most worst addictions — language, words, the idea that a person can write with the smoothness of skater’s ice. You are a standard I use as a yardstick for other writing. I don’t expect them to equal her, but she shows you what is possible with language and inspires you.
Her Latin language info. keeps me going in my learning it — no ugly words! (I have also decided to learn Aramaic for fun). I learn them to learn them, not out of academic requirements. I read archaelogy and psychology and anthropology and history – Cultural discourse thrills me.
I can’t say how many books and stories I have collected from the Cherryh Treasure Trove — used bookstores love me — because I am so in awe of her abilities as a storyteller. No, I’m not gushing — okay, maybe somewhat, but gimme a break!
So, in case I don’t get to say it again — it’s much easier to do on the first night you register, though I see that I have been reading until 2:56 a.m. — THANK YOU CJ for the work you have done and for that you plan to do. You are one of a kind.
Thank you, and welcome!
“The weather is what Jane calls ’slushing’ on us. Not quite snow, too cold to be rain”
We call that sleet in the UK. A nasty and unplesant mix of very cold rain and not quite properly formed wet snow. Possibally my least favourite weather of all.
Sleet down in Oklahoma is hard little daggers of ice, blown on a 40 mph wind, that will sandpaper your face and hurt your eyes. Last winter I got to see two things I hadn’t seen since my childhood in Missouri: Jack Frost’s patterns on the windows, and actual snowflakes with the beautiful patterns.
reading-fox: It’s sleet when it falls and slush when it lies on the roads.
I would like to not see any of either this year. One can hope, yes?
In the vein of weather, for whatever reason it is a balmy 65º F outside, after over a week of coldness and wet. I’ve broken out the rainpants/bootees as I bike to my classes, squinting through the rain even with my sunglasses on (rain in face or darkness are my choices here).
I’ve been pondering switching out the summer blanket (a pretty quilt) for the winter one (double fleece.. soft and warm), because it’s been getting pretty cold out here at night. But the weather people are saying it’s going to be back in the 80’s next week! I just wish that the weather would make up its mind. 🙂
Noooo…Slush is a noun and relates to gooey wannabe snow that actually survives on the ground. Slushing is a verb relating to the falling of rain which has delusions of being snow. Sleet is cold and bitter. Slush is … gooey rain that makes silly splatter patterns on the windshield, but doesn’t actually survive long enough to become true slush. 😀
Slushing is when falling snow melts just prior to landing or on impact. Sleeting is when rain freezes as it hits or immediately thereafter.
With the first you see wet roads and lawns except for an occasional cap of snow on a leaf or taller patch of bent over grass. With the second you get ice covered branches and power lines that fall and damage your car or roof or in the case of power lines, leave your neighborhood in the dark.