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Second Stage
Jan. 6th, 2005 02:04 pmThe gathering in Allentown passed in a happy succession of camraderie, physical affection, varied games, morbid jokes, and spans between sleep that it would be naive and misleading to call days. I miss it, and those involved; there are quiet but surprisingly sharp spasms of melancholy that periodically accompany the thought that it's over.
(I may well write more about Allentown later - indeed, I'd call it likely. Now, though, I'm going to segue into the present: watch!)
My trip isn't, though; I'm now staying with J. in Detroit, where, after the extraordinarily temperate Allentown weather tempted me to feel a little blasè about the supposed climatic fierceness of the eastern continent (we were wandering around outside in the middle of the night in hardly much more than shirt sleeves), it snowed all day yesterday, and probably some of today. It wasn't the gentle, straight-down snow I'm used to getting in Vancouver, either; there was this whole trick to figuring out how to stand so that it didn't attack your eyes (and to knocking it off your foot before getting in cars, and for remembering that maybe those gloves you brought are going to be useful after all, etc). The amount of snow I can see out J.'s window right now isn't unprecedented back home, but I don't think we've had anything like it in a few years, at least, and even when it happens it doesn't tend to last very long. Here, I get the impression that it's somewhere near the status quo.
Hardly ones to waste such an opportunity, J., J.'s sister and I will proceed to go sledding. ^_^
(I may well write more about Allentown later - indeed, I'd call it likely. Now, though, I'm going to segue into the present: watch!)
My trip isn't, though; I'm now staying with J. in Detroit, where, after the extraordinarily temperate Allentown weather tempted me to feel a little blasè about the supposed climatic fierceness of the eastern continent (we were wandering around outside in the middle of the night in hardly much more than shirt sleeves), it snowed all day yesterday, and probably some of today. It wasn't the gentle, straight-down snow I'm used to getting in Vancouver, either; there was this whole trick to figuring out how to stand so that it didn't attack your eyes (and to knocking it off your foot before getting in cars, and for remembering that maybe those gloves you brought are going to be useful after all, etc). The amount of snow I can see out J.'s window right now isn't unprecedented back home, but I don't think we've had anything like it in a few years, at least, and even when it happens it doesn't tend to last very long. Here, I get the impression that it's somewhere near the status quo.
Hardly ones to waste such an opportunity, J., J.'s sister and I will proceed to go sledding. ^_^
