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March 13, 2005
Everlasting Winter
This time last year, I was in Hawaii with the girls in my family. It was warm and sunny and delightful. We didn't really do anything but sit by the swimming pool (Ms. Janie was scared of the beach) and try to keep our pale white bodies from bursting into flame.
Today, on the other hand, it is 27 degrees. The ground is covered in several inches of snow, although thankfully most of the sidewalks are now cleared. For some reason, the people of Karlskrona seem to be happy sliding around on ice-covered sidewalks until the sun deems it time to melt. Have they never heard of shoveling? Of salt? Of sand?
Tomorrow we are expecting more snow, which is unfortunate because I will be attempting to take the bus to Amiralen (about as far as I venture out alone) to the electronics store. I am desperate to get a charger for my camera battery. The one I ordered hasn't yet arrived at my parents' house, and therefore will not arrive here before I leave on Tuesday. And I just can't go on this vacation without a camera!
Side note: how great is Madeleine Peyroux? There is just something about listening to jazz on a lazy day that makes me want to make hot chocolate and read the newspaper. Too bad that I have neither hot chocolate, nor a newspaper (reading the Washington Post online just isn't the same). Guess I'll have to settle on reading F. Scott Fitgerald's Tender is the Night, which I started last night with ambivalence.
I've also been looking to upgrade to a digital SLR. So, maybe, if I can't find a battery charger... no, no, better not even contemplate it.
Blog update: Thanks to the fantastic people at LivingDot, my 2004 blog entries are now uploaded. This is a more impressive feat than one might imagine, as I tried to do it myself and mucked up horrendously. They had to go back and delete a bunch of stuff and then migrate the information properly. They have promised to do the 2005 entries soon.
Blog Update #2: In the blink of an eye (or, really, in the blink of a bowl of ice cream), my 2005 entries are here! Now I'm ready to go.
Blog Update #3: Oops, it looks like a bunch of entries are missing (say, for instance, all of February). Right now, I would estimate that only about 30% of my entries have appeared on this new site. Hope the tech guys can figure it out!
Blog Update #4: Well, I've gone through and manually moved over the remaining entries. The formatting on a bunch is screwy, but what can you do?
Comments
Well, I guess this is where one enters a comment! It looks to me as though you lost all the comments. Am I missing something?
MOM
Posted by: Mom at March 14, 2005 12:25 AM
Yay! New Site! Are you planning on continuing your Basic Human Needs series in your new space?
Posted by: La at March 14, 2005 03:38 PM
Hey! I know Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey. Well not know, but there was a time back in . . . oh 1998-99 when I went to a couple of parties at her house while she was in residence at Hollins. She's a cool lady.
Oh yes. Don't I feel smug and important.
Posted by: KT at March 14, 2005 05:57 PM
