Extreme is a relative term. I'm sure for the Bay Area, this cold front will represent all that is unholy in the world, but in comparison to, say, Alaska, this is nothing.

Still, there's nothing wrong with calling it an extreme cold front. One of the things that irks me the most is when people in colder climes say (with a colder-than-thou attitude) "You call THAT cold?" Why, yes. Yes, I do. And you would, too, if you were enjoying 70 degree weather for the last couple of days. The fact that you're used to subfreezing temperatures doesn't make my suffering any less.

Even so, it's still fun to rub the fact that your days are much more mild right in their frozen faces. Although, I must say: I rather liked the cold weather when I went to the East Coast last year for interviews. In this Eurocentric culture, there seems to be something fundamentally wrong with a snow-less winter. Makes me feel a tiny bit left out that absolutely none of my Christmases (a.k.a. birthdays) have been white.

One thing I do not mind about not having snow: the fact that I never have to shovel the sidewalks. Or whatever it is you do when it snows. I only have the secondhand experiences of what they show on TV; that's all I'm going on here. I wouldn't mind it, I guess, if I had to do it. But I'm sure that if I were a kid that sort of crap wouldn't have gone over well with me. I think I'm at a point in my life, though, where I can go ahead and embrace new experiences. Even if it means giving up wearing shorts and flip-flops in the middle of January.

wtf, dude, ur talkign abot ur extreme weather, huhn, well i'm from denver, beeach! i spent the winter break up to my neck in snow mutha fucka!

jus' kidding. Well, not about the snow up to my neck, that part is true. You should move out the East sometime. You can chill in the bitter, bitter... bitter cold. But I like it because breathing in a single breath is like taking a long sip of ice water. But it's annoying because it never gets hot enough to get down to your cutest layer of clothes. I could have been wearing the same clothes for the last three days and nobody would have known. SPEAKING OF WHICH... my washer just broke, and water went all over the floor in the basement.... but hello, I'm a tenant, and I'm not putting my towels on that filthy basement floor. So if they don't want to have mold in the basement, they'd better get their asses down there and mop it up themselves. And then fix my washer so I can finish doing my damn laundry. Because this is Apartment Depot, where there are just a lot of people standing around saying "I don't have to do shit."
» Zanzibar on 2007-01-10 11:33:10

Its kind of cold here in the South and they are predicting snow for the weekend. Fun. Fun. Fun.
» Southern on 2007-01-11 01:07:16

Sorry, you do not have permission to comment.

If you are a member, try logging in again or accessing this page here.