The blood of his friends was gone beneath snow

[sovay]

In recent years, I feel we have been promised many blizzards, snowpocalypses, and Fimbulvetrs that never quite made the grade: blew out to sea, slumped off into freezing rain, deposited an entirely normal amount of snow for a New England winter storm and moved on with their lives. Especially as the forecasts and warnings threw around (admittedly delightful) meteorological buzzwords like "bombogenesis," I was prepared for snow, but not lots of it.

It was snowing last night as we watched Here We Go Again (1942). It was snowing last night as we watched Zazie dans le métro (1960). It was snowing last night as we went to bed and I read Josephine Tey's The Franchise Affair (1948). Sometimes it was snowing vertically. It looked very impressive, sleeting sideways by in the sodium streetlight. It was snowing when we woke up.

This isn't the second coming of the Blizzard of '78, but there's a respectable two feet of snow in the drifts down there and I foresee lots of shoveling in my future. I can live with that.

Comments

[kore]

(Oh wow, I thought you weren't on DW! Hello!)

[sovay]

(Oh wow, I thought you weren't on DW! Hello!)

Yes! Hello! I've actually been cross-posting since December 2012. I thought you had left the world of LJ/DW entirely!

[kore]

WOW, I had no idea. -- I did sort of leave for a bit (Tumblr etc.) but I VASTLY prefer it here.

[sovay]

-- I did sort of leave for a bit (Tumblr etc.) but I VASTLY prefer it here.

I do not have a Tumblr; I read a handful, but actually maintaining one feels like the kind of additional time sink I couldn't afford. (Ditto Twitter.) Most of my friendlist is still on LJ, but I have a small subset of DW-only friends and in any case the posts are always here. Pleased to talk with you again!

[kore]

Tumblr was fun, but really really non-verbal, and also made me REALLY aware of how many 'likes' or 'reblogs' a post picked up, which was horrifying, and I suppose stamps me as a dinosaur. It's OK, I'm quite happy to go extinct in the land where periods still end with sentences. And not exclamation marks! by default! because periods are not friendly enough!

[sovay]

It's OK, I'm quite happy to go extinct in the land where periods still end with sentences. And not exclamation marks! by default! because periods are not friendly enough!

It is perfectly possible to be friendly without shouting. I restrained myself from ending that sentence with an exclamation point.