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[rivendellrose]

The weather informs me that it's 35 degrees out, but that it 'feels like 28.'

...*Adds a sweater to the two shirts she's wearing already, and another pair of socks, too*

I've been informed that it "might snow" tonight. Yeah... and the sasquatch might decide to stop by and pay a visit, too. I'll have some tea ready for him.

It'd be nice (the snow, that is, not the sasquatch). I'm just not holding my breath.

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[zinjadu.livejournal.com]

Only feels like 28? Tch. The sasquatch ain't coming down for that. Too warm for him. XP *flee*

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Hey, 28 is something for a Seattle-born person. We don't have that weird "below zero" concept like Minnesotans.

[zinjadu.livejournal.com]

9_9 It'd do you all good, having to deal with real cold. Make you all complain less. I swear, you Seattlites complain about the weather like nothing else. And it never fails that someone is always surprised when it's raining. Nancies, the lot of you. XP

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm never surprised by rain. That's my default expectation! It's all the stupid California people who are surprised by the rain!

...And we can't help not being inured to the cold, we're not hardened in ice like you guys are back east.

[zinjadu.livejournal.com]

Not you! Other people. People who I know have lived here all their lives and still are upset when water falls from the sky.

True. Just be thankful I'm not as crazy as those Polar Bear Club people, what with their nekkid swimming in February. o_O There's cold resistent and then there's just plain crazy.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

*Snorts* The rain in Seattle starts in October or November, and you can pretty much expect only short pauses between then and May. After that, it's occasional rain, mixed with bursts of sunshine.

Other societies had rain dances. I haven't confirmed this yet, but I suspect that the native folks in the northwest probably had "please no rain today" dances.

Geaaaaagh, that scares me. People tried to convince me to do it back east, I was very much against it. I walked in up to my shins and called it good. ;)

[zinjadu.livejournal.com]

Yup. I'm not from around here, and I'm used to it. Hell, it's better than feeling your eyeballs freeze, cause that hurts.

Heh. Who knows? But I wonder if they danced inside or had to actually dance in the rain to make it go away?

It should! It scares most sane people. I wouldn't go near a body of cold water in the winter (there are larger lakes that don't ever get warm, per se, just less cold). Though that was mostly cause in good old Minnesota you can't throw a cat without hitting at least a pond. Cold water = bad for continued living.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Hell yes. Never had that feeling, but I'm glad of that. Yeesh.

I dunno. Maybe you have to be outside... If I thought she could take the joke, I'd ask my northwest coast art prof.

Yes. Yes it is. People do all kinds of crazy things, though, in the name of "I'm big and tough and scary FEAR ME." Or maybe boredom. I've never been sure which is the stronger factor.

[zinjadu.livejournal.com]

So... can't take the joke, can she? That's a shame.

I dunno. Way back when, when you just sat around and had to be couped up with the same people for months, and you just want to get out even the frigid lake is a welcome change?

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

I think I managed to piss her off the first time I talked to her. Funny thing, apparently it's not a good idea to comment to a professor of native art that something (contemporary, I might point out, and very avant-garde) reminds you of some works of Viking-era art. All I asked was if she knew what his influences were on the piece, and when she asked why I asked.... *Sighs* It still looks like it to me, but apparently I'm not only wrong but somehow completely wrong-headed for thinking of it and having the audacity to mention it.

...Long story short, I don't think I'll be speaking to her again this quarter. I don't take well to the "are you fecking dim?" look from old-lady professors.

That's a lot of boredom. I don't think I could get bored enough to consider a freezing lake entertainment. XP

[zinjadu.livejournal.com]

Oh my. That really is too bad.

Yes, it is. And don't say that until you've lived it. If I actually had to be couped up with my sister for months on end, I think I would try a swim.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Yeeeah. See, this is why I don't usually try too hard to start conversations with professors I don't know very well. Sometimes, when I reach for a subject of conversation, I reach in... the wrong direction.

Lol. Good thing you won't have to survive anymore long Minnesotan winters with her, then, I guess. ;)

[zinjadu.livejournal.com]

Me too, actually. I wonder if profs. sometimes realize that they can drive students away that way?

A very good thing. I'm looking forward to break this year, cause I'll get to stay here and I can hang out with you finally! *gasp*

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

I can't imagine how they could be unaware of it... I seem to be batting a thousand, this quarter, since when I followed Professor Conroy's instruction to "say hello to Guntis for [her]" he gave me a kind of pleasantly blank expression. "Oh, thank you," or something like that. Me: *headdesk* I'm like... the red-headed step-child of speaking to profs, this quarter.

*Squee* I won't have to be all lonely over break!

[theladyfeylene.livejournal.com]

It was 15 degrees out here this morning. Mmmm, chilly cold desert.

It would be nice if a sasquatch dropped by for tea. Though with this weather, it's more likely to be a yeti.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

o.O I don't even have a concept of 15 degrees, I don't think. I'm sure I've been in it, but I can't pull an 'image' of it up in my mind.

We've been hearing a little about the biqwus (or something like that) in my Native Northwest Coast art class, lately - it and one other thing whose name I keep forgetting are supposedly the Native names for the sasquatch. Really interesting stuff - I'd forgotten they were native concepts, not just invented in the 60s.

[theladyfeylene.livejournal.com]

Hehehehe.

Oh yeah, the Native Americans have a ton of legends about Sasquatches. Chiye-tanka, Big-Man, Rugaru - some tribes even consider him the embodient of the Windigo. It's popularly accepted that the idea of the Sasquatch gained popularity due to the stories of Native American slaves, and there's a lot of literature from the pre-Civil War on it. And there have been stories of Sasquatch-esque creatures all over Europe and the far East for thousands of years.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

I think I'd been vaguely aware of some of it before, but not in recent years - I've been so detached from the native mythology of this area for the last while, I'm really happy this class is getting me back to it. The funny thing about all those legends is that there are so many variations. Even here on the northwest coast, there's at least two beings that could be interpreted as being the root, and they're pretty different in terms of behavior and stuff. Still pretty fascinating to think about, though.

[nekokoban]

All I know is, it was FROSTED OVER when I woke up this morning. D: Our yard was all silver and stuff.

I went D: and decided to take the bus instead of walking. XD

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Yes! The yard was so pretty this morning, except I felt bad for that one last poor little rosebud. The bush had a nice long run this year, though.

I had fun looking at the leaves on the street all the way to 45th - I love how they look when they're edged in frost. :D

[pandorasbox.livejournal.com]

I am cold too sweetie

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Thank goodness my office at work is nice and warm. *Hugs*

[pandorasbox.livejournal.com]

I feel as if I will never be warm again. See you soon

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Maybe some hot tea will help?

[zhapper.livejournal.com]

Hey, it was good to run into you the other day. :)

Yeah, it's really damn cold. My scooter seat was frozen this morning. It made riding to school a little *ahem* invigorating.

As much as I do love snow, the thought of scootering in it makes me nervous. The asphalt is looking colder and harder than usual.

I have been really busy lately, but I really, really do want to have coffee. We seem to keep missing each other.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

It was! We totally have to get together and catch up sometime when I won't get zipped away by the 44 being oddly on-time for once in its stupid existence. ;)

What days of the week and times are good for you? I'm busy on Friday, but I've got an hour free in the afternoon (3:30 to 4:30, longer if I feel like blowing off my folklore class (which I'm often tempted to do)), or we could shoot for sometime next week? We've got to find some way to work this out!

Yeaaaah... I'd be very leery indeed of scootering on the snow. Be careful, if the white stuff does end up coming down - as it is, I think people are probably just being way too optimistic.

[zhapper.livejournal.com]

I'm free Tuesdays, Thursday afternoons, and Fridays. I'm not sure if this Friday would work or not, but I'll get back to you on it ASAP,

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Thursday afternoon would be best for me, since I've got something going already on Friday. So, say 3:30 at Cafe Allegro (the one behind Magus)?

[zhapper.livejournal.com]

Sonds good. :)

[tonsai.livejournal.com]

They have *fake snow* in San Jose. Seriously. When enough of it piles up, it looks like seafoam or soap bubbles, which is probably what it is. They have carnival rides and fake snow set up throughout downtown. California is fucking ridiculous.

I miss the excitement of that snowfall that is rare enough to still be special, but not so rare that it never comes at all. I was in Asia last time it snowed in Seattle. So if it snows, enjoy it, but I am sorry for all the cold.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Weeeeeird. There was a bunch of snow down at Westlake a few weeks ago, but I think they trucked it in or something, and it was pretty melted by the time I got there.

Well, don't feel bad - we didn't get any at all. Silly people, thinking it'd snow in Seattle this early in the year. ;)