woe and sadness!

So like I said, I must have picked up Smug Bastard's cold last Wednesday, and started feeling it this weekend? Yeah, Tuesday morning I woke up with my head feeling all bigger on the inside (not as useful in a skull as in a spaceship!), and Wednesday I woke up producing Icky Colors. It hasn't been long enough for antibiotics, so I didn't bother even trying to get an appointment. But I feel like crap and I'm not enjoying it. FEH.

In other news, I'm off to Grand Forks tomorrow, where earlier today the forecast for tomorrow was predicted to be -14 F with a wind chill of -43. I do not make these numbers up! Now it says the temperature tomorrow should be -8 with a wind chill of -26, and oddly, I find this a relief.

Can't sleep. Hate sinuses. Do not want.

ellen_fremedon would approve.

I am in Grand Forks.

It is very cold.

The weather report on the nightly news just now told me it was -29 (F!) out there, and that's before the wind chill. (The weather man, describing the likely wind chill before morning, used the word "ridiculous".) (Side note - the TV station is WDAZ, and it occurs to me to wonder why it doesn't begin with K. Anyone?) All the cars are plugged in, of course; breathing through my nose is okay, when I am able to do so (dratted sinuses!), but breathing through my mouth creates a kind of shock to the lungs that knocks the next breath right out of them before I can even draw it.

Ellen would no doubt call this "bracing".



(The sports report on the news includes video of the high school basketball game. This is charming. (And there are at least two high schools, which I'm not sure I'd have thought this town was big enough to support.))