Comments | datlowen: My toes are cold.

datlowen

My toes are cold.

Dec 15, 2007 21:07

No, really, they are. This being Massachusetts at 9:00 PM in December, I guess this should be a surprise to no one (even if I am indoors), but it was the first thing to pop into my head when I was confronted with the awesome responsibility of writing a subject heading. My nose is also cold, and my fingers are getting there (I swear to God they need ( Read more... )

cold toes, swear words

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debg December 16 2007, 03:09:55 UTC

Little brother, I feel your frost; I'm sitting in a Days Inn, in Cleveland. Storm's in a lull, but it'sgoing to start up again shortly.

datlowen December 16 2007, 05:01:15 UTC

I spent a year of my life one winter weekend in Cleveland. I do not envy you!

datlowen December 18 2007, 18:42:23 UTC

Cleveland in the winter? shudder I hope you're there for some fantastic book signing! Like, REALLY fantastic.

debg December 18 2007, 18:44:00 UTC

One two-hour paid speaking gig (accomplished, maybe twenty people, first night of the storm, so not bad) and one book premiere at a gallery, cancelled, Saturday night, when the blizzard hit full-on.

Home now. It's WET out there.

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cmshaw December 16 2007, 06:45:12 UTC

hee! oh, second-hand law school. :) pile up the snow for me! i will be driving north into it soon!

(As Super Chicken once said to his sidekick who, although I can't remember what kind of animal he was, I remember that his name was Fred: "Besides, you knew the job was dangerous when you took it." [ASSUMPTION OF RISK! dying a million deaths] Okay, technically that line is actually in the theme song, but you can imagine it as having been said by Super Chicken.)

i miss you, man!

datlowen December 18 2007, 20:45:42 UTC

I miss you, too! What's up?!

cleotyne December 16 2007, 08:14:56 UTC

Automatic for the People! I need to rebuy that. I lost mine somewhere along the way and you're right, it's awesome. It hit me at just the right time and I listened to it over and over.

Merry Xmas!

datlowen December 18 2007, 20:46:56 UTC

Merry Christmas to you, too, Cleotyne!!

I thought I had lost mine for a long time, too, and it turns out it was just in a CD case someplace that I never look. Good times. Anyway, Yes! Rebuy! It's fantastic. Again. Duh.

larrymac December 16 2007, 13:44:29 UTC

Fred was (is?) a lion. The line in question was often spoken during episodes, although in my misty water-colored memories, I can't recall if it was from hero to sidekick or vice-versa. Perhaps both.

When you say "there's [...] a million snow" on the ground, is that supposed to be a count of snowflakes, because I think you'd be off my a few orders of magnitude.

[old geezer music mode] Why back in my day, Micheal Stipe always was mumbling into the microphone and we all made up our own lyrics, and that's the way we liked it! (cf. "Radio Free Europe", "Carnival of Sorts", "Wolves, Lower", etc).

datlowen December 18 2007, 20:51:15 UTC

That's RIGHT he IS a lion! I'm pretty sure the line was only spoken from master to servant, but I won't swear to it.

There's considerably more than a million flakes of snow on the ground. I'm not even sure how I meant that, other than to mean, HMOG. SNOW.

Har. Hey, I'm used to him mumbling, as well. This whole "enunciation" thing has totally lost me.

mearagrrl December 16 2007, 20:37:09 UTC

Whoot! Hi! Yay hearing from you! Post more! I want to vicariously hear about law school.

datlowen December 18 2007, 20:54:24 UTC

Hi! Yay! Um. Law school is boring, though. Yesterday I spent most of the day writing a memo about whether Indiana's Rape Shield Law would prohibit the State from offering evidence that the victim was an avowed virgin until marriage to rebut an assertion of consensual relations! I said no. Other than that it's pretty quite around here--most all of the 1Ls have gone home. I leave tomorrow! I should maybe be doing laundry, but, meh. MEH.

mearagrrl December 19 2007, 01:51:28 UTC

Right, because we all know if you promise to be a virgin until marriage, you're SO LIKELY to remain so. And TOTALLY unlikely to, say, claim to your parents that no, you totally didn't want it.

Er, not to be all anti-feminist about it. But.

datlowen December 19 2007, 14:39:37 UTC

Well, in my defense, the theoretical victim was an adult, so the parents didn't come into it, and this is someone who was famous and had like articles published in magazines that she was going to be a virgin until marriage. Not to say that she didn't lie anyway, but for some reason lawyers like to pretend that their witnesses are always telling the truth.

And you're not actually being anti-feminist. We had to read a whole bunch of literature about this earlier in the semester, and apparently the feminist position is that there is entirely too much and also not enough rape in the world. Everyone's a feminist!