I don't know what it's like for you up in Lubbock, but I can't recall it ever being this cold this time of year. I swear. It wasn't so bad going over there this morning (probably because I was tense and freaking out and stuff) but on the way back it started getting gusty and crap. I was losing feeling in my extremities from a seven-minute walk back to the dorm.
Oh and I totally did wipe out on the way to cafe last night. SWAT boots apparently don't do crap for ice.
It was 7 degrees here but I had two jackets...I really can't imagine what it would be like to live some place where it wasn't always cold in December, that's for sure.
I sure do sympathize with the fall. I haven't walked on ice since I was about 10, but on Monday night I was walking to the library and crossing a very dark patch of shadow which happens to be an abruptly smooth stretch of asphalt with an abruptly steeper downhill slope. And under a pine tree. The hard, completely not rubberized heel of my boot skidded on the needles I couldn't see and I landed so hard on my other knee that I have a quite painful bruise about two inches in diameter that will probably take another week or so to heal.
It's been cold here, too...as low as 42 F at night. I had to upgrade to wearing a wool cape over my wool sweater, which I usually only do when it rains. And just two weeks ago it was in the 70s-80s, until the night before Thanksgiving.
Oh, and I like the cartoon. Though I think it'd be more effective if you didn't switch to first person to describe going back to sleep. A simple "*click* ZZZ" would have told the story. Unless you think it's too cliche, of course. and it's Fahrenheit
I'm impressed. I wouldn't have woken up until at least 10 myself under those circumstances. How did the final go?
The Farenhiet system is based on the freezing point of salty water, and the temperature of a sweaty man with stinky armpits (reports indicate that deodorant was not invented until after Farenhiet's death). Using his 1337 math skillz, Mr. Farenhiet, after doing several tests, conclude that the previously implied values would be 0' and 100'. Fortunately, he didn't decide to have the freezing point of salt water be 100', or else absolute zero would be a positive number. That means that 212' is the boiling point of water.
It's a simple enough conversion. Just figure it like you would the formula of a line with coordinates (0,32) and (100,212).
Damn, I hate to copy DZ, but I LOVE YOU, Chanoire.
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The scary part is I have no idea how much of that is true.
I'm going to go with "Not much." The freezing point of Farenheit would have to be well above 400 for absolute zero to be positive, salt water freezes in the high twenties (28 I think).
Also, Wikipedia says the Farenheit scale is 18 years older than the Celsius scale.
When my MILE (Marietta Independent Learning Environment (teh uber 1337 advanced reading and language arts class, even more adcanced than the advanced class), made me run laps up and down a hill for sleeping in class. Unfortunately, this was a daily occurance. It got to the middle of winter, and I started to get cold. So when it started snowing, I started wearing no shirt, shorts, and no shoes out in it. That got me straight used to it. I am cold-immune now! So, in 10 degree weather (which it rarely gets to in Georgia), I started wearing shorts and a shirt. Everybody thinks I am even more of a freak. So the moral of the story is: It's just the cold, get used to it!
Oh, I'm definitely used to the cold. I love when it's cold out, as long as it's not very windy. Wind + cold = sux. But I do actually enjoy the cold; it's much better than being hot at least. I absolutely cannot stand the heat.
Home for the holidays, and that means Season 4 of 24 with sister! I don't think you really need to watch the show to get this, but if you don't and you don't get it, you don't count. Because you don't watch 24. :x
This is, again, pretty much word-for-word a conversation we actually had.
Afraid it does go over my head...and while I don't watch the show, I don't watch anything else either; I'm an equal-opportunity nonviewer. The drawing of your sister with her hair in a bun startled me because I frequently put my hair in one (mainly to get it out of my face and off my neck, rather than for appearances).