Class starts in 3 minutes, next door May 23, 2008
Posted by smartblondece in Oregon, Pacific NW, Rain, Weather, What?!, school.add a comment
I don’t want to go. I have to walk through the disgusting rain. Why does Oregon mean 98 and humid or cold and rainy???
One gaurentee… there will be water included.
Top 10 reasons to crawl under the bed and die January 16, 2008
Posted by smartblondece in Phi Rho, Weather, What?!, blah, school.2 comments
10. I’m tired.
9. There is never enough coffee or hours in the day.
8. The kid behind me in the coffee shop that insists that the table next to him is not in fact a table but a drum.
7. Walking to and from campus is turning slowly to me crawling back and forth
6. Womens Studies even more unbearable than normal because I don’t have my sister smirking next to me.
5. It is cold. 27 F this morning when I woke up.
4. The joys of Initiation week, fun but long.
3. 12 hours on campus today.
2. Math quiz tomorrow and once again, I am lost in class.
And drum rrrrroooooollllllllllllllllllllll……..
1. Because it just sound so good.
White Christmas December 25, 2007
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Snow on Christmas Day is rare in Portland. It snowed Christmas Eve in 1998, but melted before Christmas Day got too far in. In 1990 there was a dusting. And the last measurable snow was in 1938. Today’s snow is a “dusting” but let me put it this way. It was enough to make the deck very white and put a good coat of snow on the roofs. For Portlanders, this brief spell of snow, this dusting is snowfall. We will either celebrate, or groan, as we watch the large wet flakes fall upon our city. Commenting on how they blow about or if they are sticking to certain surfaces. We marvel in the novelty of snow. What seems mundane across much of the North American Continent is a fleeting wonder in this city. We know that snow falls in the mountains. We will ski year round upon Mt Hood. We are familiar with and generally love snow. It allows us to live in this lush green climate that Oregonians adore. But to receive it in the Willamette Valley only comes a few times each winter. And as it only ever lasts a few hours, a morning, or as we had today, an afternoon, we stop and appreciate the beauty of those white flakes, coating everything, as though to hide the world under a fine dusting of powdered sugar.
Chinese Water Torture December 18, 2007
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So the drain outside my window at my moms house never worked. Thankfully as it turns out now. Because it now works. This September my mom and step-dad added onto our garage and redid the entire roof. Oh, and fixed that flipping gutter! But, you say, this must be a good thing. The water can now properly drain off of the roof. You tell that to my lack of sleep. When it is pouring this is fine. It sounds a bit like a water feature outside my window. But when you get drizzle, which if you’ve never been to Pacific NW in the winter is the dominant weather, you hear “Drip… Drip… Drip… Drip…” I would never complain as much if this were a regular dripping, but it’s not. There may be a very short silence between two drips then a very long pause, in all irregular. Now try to lay in a silent room, have a hard time falling asleep in the first place and try to deal with it. Even when I’ve managed to fall asleep it is not very good quality. I love the rain. I hate my mother’s rain gutters!
Update at 1:32. Didn’t think it could get much worse. It did. The rain is now pouring. SIDEWAYS. Into the sides of the aluminum gutters. F*#%ing noise!
We WON & Rain! December 1, 2007
Posted by smartblondece in Oregon, Rain, Weather, snow.1 comment so far
WE BEAT UofO!!! AT EUGENE!!! In double overtime! It was cool. I called Kristin and apparently demanded a ride (Thank you, Kristin! I love my favorite sister. “Your only sister!” she cries at me) . We did not watch the game. Well ok we turned it on and off and watched Elizabeth I with Helen Mirren and Nanny McPhee. Oh and the end of Bend it Like Beckham.
It is POURING. Tonight is supposed to be a big storm. 100 mph winds and all. My parking lot has flooded now. My apartment is flooded. On the way home the rain was half snow. It’s like 37, and there is a snow advisory for the coast range.
Quarter Past One November 26, 2007
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I have the urge to write. I should be asleep. Sunday night I have class at 9 am. Instead I’m sitting in my dark room, not wanting to unplug the space heater to deprive myself of heat in the -3 C cold and fog, oh, and listening to Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me! (Best thing on radio). And I’m putting my mom’s Dixie Chicks CD (stole it, she doesn’t know yet) on to my iTunes Library. Why is it I always want to write at this hour. Two nights past it was on my story. The scene when a certain military leader comes to a certain adolescent girl trained in medicine to tell her that the medicine won’t come. Then the scene later (4 years later) when he talks to her about that conversation and first hints that his loyalties may not lay where many may think. I thought it came out well… but then again it was quarter past one.
