maybe it's just me

Snow!

I was listening to Weekend Edition in the shower & during the news break, the WBUR people came on & said that we're expecting 2 feet(!!!) of snow this afternoon & evening. An ominous-sounding "Blizzard Warning" takes effect at noon, in 37 minutes. I plan to be outside & wish that it would all fall at once, transforming the landscape all at once into smooth, clean, snowy whiteness, if only until the 39 bus screams by & ruins it. (Please do not extend the previous sentence into metaphor). Despite my giddiness, I can fully understand J. Hopper's mid-winter, Midwestern doldrums, having lived through at least 15 such periods since I was 13. My East Coast malaise has been very similar except that the early rumblings of the new semester has begun to draw me outside & playoff football has proved to be essential in rekindling friend-ly connections that have cooled since summer.

I'm also reminded of how, at breakfast a couple of winters ago, my housemates & I decided that as long as the weather was keeping us inside, what would be better than writing & recording an album? The twin highlights being our cover of U2's "With or Without You" which we couldn't remember all the words to & Bobby's original "Snow", a slow-metal dirge about snow removal.