Alaska, she is cold

[sholio]

50 below zero in Fairbanks this morning, and supposed to stay that way all week. Killer weather. We put a heat lamp in the chickens' coop; we'd had a hundred-watt light bulb in there for extra heat, but it wasn't really enough for this kind of cold. They were getting sluggish and unhappy. Poor tropical jungle fowl.

The ice fog has really socked in, too. ... for those who aren't familiar with it, when it gets this cold, the moisture in the air freezes into a dense fog of ice crystals. It's much worse in town, with all the ambient moisture from cars and houses and so forth, than out in the intensely dry valley where we live, but even we have a smoggy drift of it. In town it's pea-soup-thick, "can't see the taillights in front of you" fog. Going to work on Friday was a miserable experience. Right now I'm only working two days a week, and my university-employed husband is off until the students come back, so neither of us has to be anywhere until Thursday and we don't plan on attempting it. This is "hunker down and stay warm" weather.

I've been thinking about doing a "year in review" fic post, because I'm enjoying going around and reading other people's, but I'm just not really motivated to. I am bitter, bitter towards the show at the moment *g*, and I really don't want to dwell on having lavished love on it last year.

Edit: Massive "Vegas" spoilers in the comments.

Comments

[sholio]

The ice particles aren't dangerous by themselves; they're very tiny and human body heat melts them instantly. Ice fog is mostly just annoying. You *can* hurt your lungs by breathing too quickly and deeply when the air is this cold and dry, though. I've done that to myself; it's not pleasant.

I guess every part of the world has its dangerous weather, though. The desert is beautiful and I love your pictures of it, but I don't know if I'd want to deal with the hazards of living there! I guess it's just a matter of what you're used to ...

And regarding your last point, I certainly don't want to lose the friendships that I've built up during my time in the fandom, and I suspect that eventually, after the series ends and everything settles down, I'll work past the animosity and sense of betrayal that I'm currently feeling towards the show and its characters. I'm obviously not over the show, because I'm still thinking about it quite a bit .... just in a negative way. I have to keep stopping myself from writing bitter breakup fic for it ... *g*

[roga.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't want to live in the desert either :-) Visiting every now and again is enough for me.

And hey, if writing bitter breakup fic for the show helps you in any way, go for it! I'm sure you wouldn't be the only one with whom it resonates...