Another Nor’easter is walloping the mid-Atlantic, and this time Boston was forecast to receive its fair share of snow. At first I heard it would be 4 inches, beginning in later afternoon. Then it was 8 inches, beginning at noon. And yesterday, I heard a foot starting at 6am.
Instead of my typical childish excitement over the snow, I was dismayed over the timing… ironically, because today I was to visit an elementary school that uses my company’s software. But the doom-filled forecast prompted the school to close, and my boss urged me to stay home to avoid the mess that the local news was promising would materialize shortly in the region.
So I stayed home. No snow as of 10am, 11am… noon came and tiny flakes started to fall, but the flakes turned into non-accumulating freezing drizzle by 1pm.
For about five minutes, I slipped into unproductive “snow day” mode: I tried watching Jerry Springer. “Lesbian Sexcapades.” Apparently Jerry has stopped giving his guests chairs? Sadie and Heather, two strippers who met on the job, team up to dump Heather’s boyfriend because he refuses to participate in threesomes. He appears on stage in a business suit, pleading with Heather to give up her wanton lifestyle. The two ladies share a passionate same-sex kiss (on daytime network television!?) and the disposed boyfriend stalks off the stage in despair. “What are you gonna do now, ladies?” Jerry asks, and the two ladies immediately peel off their body socks and begin squirting glow-in-the-dark paint on ach other as the stage lights dim, and they cavort and roll around while the audience howls in approval. Okay. Time to be productive.
One of my quiet New Year’s Resolutions is to learn how to use Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator (I have the entire CS3 suite installed on my Mac and it only ever gets used to resize photos and make CD covers). It’s a quiet resolution because it seems like one of those good-intentioned vows of self-improvement that never comes to fruition, but now I have a genuine need to use both programs for my work. So I spent a few hours on the Photoshop tutorial. I learned the mechanics of the lasso (if not the art), as evident by:
2:30 pm, it’s drizzling, still no accumulation…
