Baby, It's Cold Outside

hmmm...I feel so left out...everybody's a panda but me!

Great! There are some people in the Northeast who agree that it's OK for it to be 9 F.

And take walks in it . . .

pigs blood...ick! i mistook it for dried tofu once. blech!

100 pages in, I'm as yet unconvinced by The Namesake. If nothing else, it doesn't engage like Interpreter of Maladies did. I'm starting to care a little more now that little Gogol/Nikhil has found himself a Yalie on the train, but entrancement has been a long time coming.

Absolutely most terrifying(ly yummy?) thing I have ever eaten: cubes of coagulated pig's blood tossed into a hot pot in Tianjing, China.

Question for Jen: have you found, or do you know of any place in NYC that serves up a legit (and tasty) hot-pot?

And the panic that ensues. The runs on the bodega pre-first-flurry. During the Blizzard of 2003 (January edition) I could still get take-out. Hardly the Donner Party situation one would think was happening.

But, I did love that the subway was out, thereby granting me a Snow Day. There should be one (1) snow day per winter month. If I were mayor, I'd make it happen.

I Love it when the networrks get all their graphics and orchestral music for "The Blizzard of ..." I mean puh-leez. I used to live in Vermont. Nothing is remotely comparable to what those guys called a blizzard. Still, it is fun to watch the networks spin a day of snow into the fall of Pompeii.

Right on, Marv! Death to hot-weather tyranny! I am not crazy because I like getting all bundled up in cute wooly things. Cold keeps most of the hoi polloi off the sidewalks as well. (I will attest that wind makes the worst of anyt weather situation. Rain? Eh. Rain with wind? Crap!)

And please, news outlets (NY1, et. al.): seasonably cold weather is not newsworthy. It's January, we live in the northeast: what do we expect? It's much worse in the midwest, but at least most people there have climate control in their houses, eliminating the need to "power strip" and open windows upon entering the house.

One other suggestion:

http://newyork.craigslist.org/cgi-bin/search?areaID=3&subAreaID=0&catAbbreviation=&group=P&type_search=&query=cold+OR+warm&cat=all&minAsk=min&maxAsk=max

I know, there are these clothes things as you say, but it's sooo windy. And when you're bundled up and you get into the subway, you're too hot. And it's already so warm at in the apartment. And I haven't read a book since...well, the novelization of The Princess Diaries, which was already a novel. Kidding, sorta.

It's amazing that it's the year 2004 and people still haven't discovered that there are anti-cold weather technologies that allow you to go out and live your life.

These hi-tech things are: scarves, gloves, coats, layered clothing, hats, longjohns...

ah- the joys of seasonal affective disorder- i was wondering why i've been having insomnia, listening to the eels, and turning a greenish shade of white.