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Brrrrrr…….

Published by Iris on Saturday, February 3rd, 2007

Yesterday evening the temperature dipped below zero (F).* Today our high (of -3) occurred near midnight and it’s simply gotten colder all day. Tomorrow we’ll bounce off the bottom (at -17) and make it all the way back up to -3 by evening. I don’t see any temps above zero until next Tuesday evening! We won’t get above 10 degrees until Friday, which is so far away that I don’t think I trust that prediction.

With the breeze, this means we’re flirting with windchill temps in the -30s and -40s all weekend.

I take back what I said. This is definitely colder than the freezing point. If you walk outside with earrings on, the post sends bolts of cold through your ear lobes. Nose hairs catch condensation as you breath out and freeze into a tiny brittle net. (I’m glad I don’t have a nose ring, or a lip piercing.) Apparently you can damage your skin (due to ice crystals exploding your skin cells) if you stay outside longer than half an hour.

On the up-side, the ice crystals on my windows are beautiful, and the warnings about dangerously cold temperatures is a great excuse to stay in, curl up under fluffy blankets, and drink steaming mugs of various hot beverages.

*Celsius translations for temperatures are -17.8, -19.4, -27.2, -19.4, -17.8, and -12.2 respectively. Translations of windchill temps are also in the -30s and -40s… interesting.

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We Deserve a Commission

We Deserve a Commission

Published by Iris on Friday, February 2nd, 2007

An admissions guy stopped me and two of my co-workers on the sidewalk today to tell us that he had recently read an application he thought we should know about. In this application the prospective freshman wrote about the librarian trading cards and their accompanying superpowers as one of her three reasons for applying to Carleton. Very cool. I say, admit that girl. She’s obviously a highly perceptive candidate.

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Stuck

Published by Iris on Thursday, February 1st, 2007

Today was one of those days… But now, even though I’m finally all set to go home, I’m sitting here at my desk reveling in the sounds of a new CD.

I’ve been looking and looking for an old, out-of-print CD of Itzhak Perlman playing Mendelssohn and Prokofiev. It’s one from my short list of all-time favorite CDs, and I finally found a good copy. It arrived today, and right now I can hardly move from my seat as he plays my favorite piece from this CD, the Andante movement of Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto #2 in G Minor, Op. 63 – 2. I don’t think there’s ever been a more beautiful piece of music composed, and it has certainly never been better performed.

This is the only piece that the director of my dance academy ever forbade me from choreographing to. The reason? She had already done it, and it was one of her favorites.

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Glimmers in the Gloom

Published by Iris on Thursday, February 1st, 2007

It’s been a rough week, and it seems I’m not alone in feeling this way. (In fact, I’d say I had it a bit better than some people.) So I thought I’d point to some of my favorite posts to brighten things up a little in my corner of the world. These are posts that, in the middle of a warm summer afternoon, I might have the mental wherewithal to actually comment on… but at this point all I can say to the authors is, “Thank you for writing such thoughtful pieces. I’m not writing about them, but I am thinking about them.”

As the song says, “these are a few of my favorite things” this week. I hope next week brings peace and calm… but who am I kidding.

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