The sun is searching for a place to stay

[sovay]

We are estimated to receive a foot of snow in the year's first winter storm, which is busily plastering over our windows as municipal snowplows bang in the street outside. I can't tell yet if staying inside for snow feels altered by this year of staying inside for plague, nine months now and no nice due date to point to. Lately I have been falling asleep in the evenings and waking after midnight when I would prefer to be winding down to sleep. Tomorrow I have to call the kind of bureaucracy that's trying to kill me, not the much rarer kind that I was so pleasantly surprised to deal with last week. I couldn't catch the real sodium-pinpointed wind-blue of the air no matter how I tried, but I liked watching the white sand of the snow blow past our back deck.

Comments

[ashlyme]

A wonderful picture. I can almost feel the quiet that comes with snow.

Good luck for wrestling with bureaucrats today.

[sovay]

A wonderful picture. I can almost feel the quiet that comes with snow.

It drifted beautifully over all the rails.

Good luck for wrestling with bureaucrats today.

Thank you! So far, success. *apotropaic charms everywhere*

[ashlyme]

*So far, success.*

*Inspector Gadget fistbumps* Is it still snowing?

[sovay]

Is it still snowing?

It stopped in the late afternoon! Now it's just blowing about.

[ashlyme]

That's still pretty awesome! I mean, I come from a land where they think half an inch is the New Ice Age, so.

Re: Apotropaic

[nodrog]

You are the only person I know who would casually use that word - or even know it.

Pleezda meetcha!

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Could it be arranged, I imagine your correspondence with H L Mencken would be fascinating to read.  You may remember that he was the one who - upon request, if I recall it aright - coined the term ecdysiast.