bandit king of lunch and string

global warming has broken the wind wall around the arctic and now the cold is slopping down over north america. i'm not surprised to hear california is mooshy. weather be fucked.

 

landslides scare the bejeezus out of me tbh. please don't hang out under any steep hills. D:

 

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/02/please-stop.html

a classic

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/awl0z5/whats_the_scariest_supernatural_experience_youve/

more spooky reddit. as usual with spooky stories, i wish people would stop shitting up the thread with hypnagogic hallucinations. if you woke up, saw the scary thing, and fell back asleep, you dreamed it. you would not fall asleep with a monster standing beside your bed; you weren't really awake to begin with.

and having dreams about your elderly grandparents dying is not prophetic. it's a perfectly understandable worry playing out in your mind's eye. it happens to a lot of people. you're not psychic.

the baby gargoyle in the tree was great. i want to hear more about that one.

 

my face holes are dribbly and i slept all day and all i want to do is go back to bed... so i fully expect that when i do, i'll find myself unable to sleep. because that's just how life goes.

anyway, the weather could ease up any time it likes. being shut indoors for so long is not good for my allergies or my brain. i don't think i've been outside except for snow/ice maintenance activities or doctor's appointments since november. and i didn't expect march to actually be spring, i've lived in minnesota all my life and i'm not delusional, but i was expecting it to be kinda slushy and melty around now, not a black-ice deep freeze. this is just depressing.

and i'm certain my greenhouse plants are all completely dead now. including my big palm tree that i've had for years. every time i think about it i want to cry.

 

i have the sneeze. so much sneeze. have a sneezing panda to celebrate my respiratory fireworks.

 

note for later

some noble: it makes me sick to see a peasant pretending to be a lord, and all of you nodding like fools!
casimir, curiously: are you going to throw up?
some noble: you heard me.
casimir, to a servant: get this man a bucket.
some noble: you mock now, but --
casimir: you're excused. go take care of your stomach thing, dude, stop interrupting the meeting.
some noble: *flounces*
casimir: get better soon! right, is anyone else feeling ooky, or can we talk about flood relief now?

 

chemistry fun

 

wondering if i should make a thread in 'make it so' for my stalemate musings.

 

a brave but contemplative adventurer. much approval.

 

"in like a lion, out like a lamb" is a british saying. in minnesota, it should be "in like a wendigo, out like a yeti." hopefully the wendigo stage is over now and instead of snot-crystallizing black-ice cold and antarctic wind chill we'll have mere cold and a lot of snow.

 

i woke up with balloon hands after not enough sleep, and poor seebs is run off their feet today and forgot the honey in my breakfast sandwich. it's just peanut butter between bread. my mouth is stuck together. today is not being a good day.

 

it snowed hard last night, and today the sky is cloudless and intensely blue. the world is white and gray and azure, and very bright. it's beautiful.

it's so much easier to appreciate it, knowing that by the end of the week it'll be raining, and snowdrops and crocuses beginning to poke through the crust and the slush.