And there was Traying. And it was Good.
Dec. 5th, 2002 06:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rushthatspeaksIt snowed.
I thought I'd mention that in case nobody noticed.
Anyhow. I'm not a winter person, as I generally prefer higher temperatures than most people and find cold usually very unpleasant, but the last few winters here I've gotten sick of seeing everyone else frolic and bounce and play like joyful puppies while I slink from building to building cursing my footwear and wishing I could teleport so as to never ever ever have to see the outside between November and, say, March. If you can't beat them, join them. So off I went a-frolicking. It was fun. Syona Keleste and Eredien and I took Erd trays and went down a lot of the hills over near the science building a heck of a lot of times, and then peeled the snow off ourselves somehow and had very nice blackcurrent tea and watched a lot of Hikaru no Go. I like Hikaru no Go and suspect that I am learning how to play Go by osmosis. It was a nice afternoon and brought back memories of other winters, sledding and skiing and hot chocolate and snow with chocolate syrup on it and the creek at the bottom of the Kresge's hill that meant that one had to be *really, really careful* about how one aimed the sled so as to go over the footbridge and not into the water, and how happy I was when I finally learned how to ski without falling down every five minutes. The snow days during elementary and high school and the days that should have been snow days and weren't (mostly in high school-- the rumor was that our principal believed that if she could drive to school, anybody could, but she lived on the same block that our school was on, and had to drive all of twenty feet and why she bothered driving I don't know; the senior class always used to bandy about pouring a bucket of water over her driveway, but I don't think anyone ever actually did it). I still don't like winter, though, and I like it less and less each year.
No sign of my backpack, either. I have given up and ordered a new Greek textbook, and hereby nominate Batshua for sainthood.
Does anyone know any good and not terribly brain-requiring books that I might be able to find in a college library system? I need something to read in my free moments that needs no work at all on my part, but that will not require me to go off campus, since I don't have time. Fiction, non-fiction, whatever; I've been having a pleasant semester so far as far as non-required reading, but all of it has needed some work, and now that finals are nearly here I can't use any of my brain for leisure reading-- but I need something for the waiting-for-the-bus time, the ten-minutes-in-line time, the study breaks. I just finished Wuthering Heights, and recommend it extremely-- it goes on my short-list of most spectacularly well-written books I've ever read-- but it was too much work right now, though worth it, and I need a vacation.
I hope everybody's winters are going well. Happy snow to you all.
I thought I'd mention that in case nobody noticed.
Anyhow. I'm not a winter person, as I generally prefer higher temperatures than most people and find cold usually very unpleasant, but the last few winters here I've gotten sick of seeing everyone else frolic and bounce and play like joyful puppies while I slink from building to building cursing my footwear and wishing I could teleport so as to never ever ever have to see the outside between November and, say, March. If you can't beat them, join them. So off I went a-frolicking. It was fun. Syona Keleste and Eredien and I took Erd trays and went down a lot of the hills over near the science building a heck of a lot of times, and then peeled the snow off ourselves somehow and had very nice blackcurrent tea and watched a lot of Hikaru no Go. I like Hikaru no Go and suspect that I am learning how to play Go by osmosis. It was a nice afternoon and brought back memories of other winters, sledding and skiing and hot chocolate and snow with chocolate syrup on it and the creek at the bottom of the Kresge's hill that meant that one had to be *really, really careful* about how one aimed the sled so as to go over the footbridge and not into the water, and how happy I was when I finally learned how to ski without falling down every five minutes. The snow days during elementary and high school and the days that should have been snow days and weren't (mostly in high school-- the rumor was that our principal believed that if she could drive to school, anybody could, but she lived on the same block that our school was on, and had to drive all of twenty feet and why she bothered driving I don't know; the senior class always used to bandy about pouring a bucket of water over her driveway, but I don't think anyone ever actually did it). I still don't like winter, though, and I like it less and less each year.
No sign of my backpack, either. I have given up and ordered a new Greek textbook, and hereby nominate Batshua for sainthood.
Does anyone know any good and not terribly brain-requiring books that I might be able to find in a college library system? I need something to read in my free moments that needs no work at all on my part, but that will not require me to go off campus, since I don't have time. Fiction, non-fiction, whatever; I've been having a pleasant semester so far as far as non-required reading, but all of it has needed some work, and now that finals are nearly here I can't use any of my brain for leisure reading-- but I need something for the waiting-for-the-bus time, the ten-minutes-in-line time, the study breaks. I just finished Wuthering Heights, and recommend it extremely-- it goes on my short-list of most spectacularly well-written books I've ever read-- but it was too much work right now, though worth it, and I need a vacation.
I hope everybody's winters are going well. Happy snow to you all.
