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Oh, this is just bloody wonderful.
A little backstory: Earlier today Katie and I took up a friend of ours on a standing invite we'd had to have tea in Welles Hall. Mmmm, real English tea and wicked good conversation. :) that part of the day actually *was* pretty darn great. However, not ten minutes after we'd gotten back, I had a phone call from Brandy saying that we were expected to get snowed on this weekend, and that the MAFL at NIU was up in the air since we sort of had no driver. Best wishes to Mike and shauna with all the iffiness, by the way. *hugs them both* Anyway, it was decided that it was no great huge deal if we didn't go--I'm satisfied with last week being my last tournament as a competitor since it went well, and I wouldn't want my family, friends or heck, anybody driving in crazy snowy crap conditions. I wouldn't ask my parents who've been driving in Wisconsin weather for thirty years to make a trip in a blizard, so I sure as heck wouldn't ask a fellow student to. It just wouldn't be fair, and I'd spend the time worrying myself into a quiver over the state of the roads and their wheels. So the NIU trip is off, which means no crazy blizard navigation, no late Saturday night, and no l-o-n-g Sunday. I'm OK with that.
But on the downside, we have bloody snow again! Bleh! Katie and I made a Jitters run tonight after going up to Paula's and sharing some of our own tea with her--that's the same friend we'd had tea with earlier in the day, call it returning the favor. while we were in the coffee house someone Katie knew and I'd met a couple times walked up with a friend and said "Damn, look at the snow we're getting!" I was then advised to put a lid on my drink the better to avoid getting snow added to the mix. It's a good thing I took that advice, because by the time we got from Welles to Knilans we were both covered in the stuff! Katie's chair, both our coats, our hair, the lids of our drinks... aieee! Just walking on it was evidence enough that it was pretty wicked bad, never mind the faceful we both took in the first twenty feet. I don't envy the teams who drove in tonight for Sorber, not at *all*.
Speaking of, we've got Sorber tomorrow if I haven't already made that clear. Early morning, long day, but not horribly late night thank gods. It'll be interesting with the blizard on though, never mind if we get blowing and drifting. Ugh...
And somebody remind me *not* to read Les Miserables fan stories at two or so in the morning. they will routinely lead to marvelous, fic-inspiring dreams, give a frightening amount of fuel to my revolutionary muse, and cause scenes upon scenes with at least one version of the Maquis if not several! in direct involvement to do the Athena thing--that is, spring to life full-grown and start plaguing me! Nineteenth-century fiction and futuristic rebellion inspired by the same, and alternate universes and... oy!! *writes*
A little backstory: Earlier today Katie and I took up a friend of ours on a standing invite we'd had to have tea in Welles Hall. Mmmm, real English tea and wicked good conversation. :) that part of the day actually *was* pretty darn great. However, not ten minutes after we'd gotten back, I had a phone call from Brandy saying that we were expected to get snowed on this weekend, and that the MAFL at NIU was up in the air since we sort of had no driver. Best wishes to Mike and shauna with all the iffiness, by the way. *hugs them both* Anyway, it was decided that it was no great huge deal if we didn't go--I'm satisfied with last week being my last tournament as a competitor since it went well, and I wouldn't want my family, friends or heck, anybody driving in crazy snowy crap conditions. I wouldn't ask my parents who've been driving in Wisconsin weather for thirty years to make a trip in a blizard, so I sure as heck wouldn't ask a fellow student to. It just wouldn't be fair, and I'd spend the time worrying myself into a quiver over the state of the roads and their wheels. So the NIU trip is off, which means no crazy blizard navigation, no late Saturday night, and no l-o-n-g Sunday. I'm OK with that.
But on the downside, we have bloody snow again! Bleh! Katie and I made a Jitters run tonight after going up to Paula's and sharing some of our own tea with her--that's the same friend we'd had tea with earlier in the day, call it returning the favor. while we were in the coffee house someone Katie knew and I'd met a couple times walked up with a friend and said "Damn, look at the snow we're getting!" I was then advised to put a lid on my drink the better to avoid getting snow added to the mix. It's a good thing I took that advice, because by the time we got from Welles to Knilans we were both covered in the stuff! Katie's chair, both our coats, our hair, the lids of our drinks... aieee! Just walking on it was evidence enough that it was pretty wicked bad, never mind the faceful we both took in the first twenty feet. I don't envy the teams who drove in tonight for Sorber, not at *all*.
Speaking of, we've got Sorber tomorrow if I haven't already made that clear. Early morning, long day, but not horribly late night thank gods. It'll be interesting with the blizard on though, never mind if we get blowing and drifting. Ugh...
And somebody remind me *not* to read Les Miserables fan stories at two or so in the morning. they will routinely lead to marvelous, fic-inspiring dreams, give a frightening amount of fuel to my revolutionary muse, and cause scenes upon scenes with at least one version of the Maquis if not several! in direct involvement to do the Athena thing--that is, spring to life full-grown and start plaguing me! Nineteenth-century fiction and futuristic rebellion inspired by the same, and alternate universes and... oy!! *writes*
