Snow day!!!!

Twenty below and blowing snow drifts equal a city-wide shut down today. Couldn't have made it into work if I had wanted to -- my car doors are frozen shut.

I love winter Up North!

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Tastes of the good life. Wild weather this weekend; bonfire on Elk Lake with Sleeping Bear Brown from the tap and wild Alaskan salmon (caught the day before and ice-packed for the plane ride home) grilled to perfection, eaten with fingers off paper plates while still steaming under the stars. The only thing better than new good friends are good ( Read more... )

Christmas this year was sweet, snowless and a little bit sad. I've always loved going to our Catholic church on Christmas because the songs and incense always created an emotionally charged timewarp, taking me all the way back to my own begining. But this year the sermon was dry and uninspiring, and I spent the entire hour trying to avoid eye- ( Read more... )

FRIENDS ONLY, S'IL VOUS PLAIT.


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The Man in Black was back again this week - my marvelous Marv, with the breathmints tin of guitar picks, his diluted blue eyes the only hint of color on his entire body. This week he was wearing a sharp black leather jacket, which astounded me because "sweatbox" is the first word that comes to mind whenever I walk into the cramped instruction room ( Read more... )

Marv is tall, chunky, pasty and dressed entirely in black shapeless clothing. Black shoes, black pants, floppy black t-shirt. His hair is so blonde it's almost white, so thin as to be just a short step away from bald. He has terrible breath and he can barely see without his thickly-rimmed black square-framed glasses, which make for a most ( Read more... )

in the past week, i have grown all too familiar with the sight of my own blood. the sounds of doctors' offices. the sensory experiences of more lab work: the awful snap of rubber gloves, the crumple of plastic-wrapped syringes, the squeeze of the tourniquet on my upper arm, the gentle tap on the inside of my elbow as the nurse locates a vein. the ( Read more... )