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[browngirl]

But I just wanted to tell you two things.

Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day makes me happy. Orion was one of a very few constellations I knew as a child; it's one of a very few one can see from the Bronx.

A student who is so growing up to be Joe Isuzu walked up to me and asked if, if he gave me $1800, he could not go to class today. I laughed uproariously for what had to be a good minute.

Remind me to tell you about the , as of last count, 8 kids who called to ask if class were still going on. It's just a snowstorm, people!

Comments

[redbird]

Yes, it's just a snowstorm. But down here in NYC, the weather service's 7 a.m. statement was "travel is strongly discouraged."

There are few things more irritating than slogging through bad weather to work or school, and being sent home in said bad weather because everything is closed. (The time this happened to me it wasn't anyone's fault--the governor closed the state between the time I left home and the time I got to work, about 15 minutes later.)

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Well, in the school's defense, if we *were* closed they'd get a machine message saying so. Also, it's not quite so bad here yet as to discourage travel and all that.

The kids, though, have just been so *funny*, with this breathless "is the school closed?!" hope in their voices. I'm not mocking the idea of being snowed out of school (ha, as if I could with my short fat legs), I'm just amused by the way the kids called me.

[jenny_evergreen]

*happy I got to see this before it was changed* =)

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Orion is so gorgeous there. I have got to show that to Zorinth's best friend, whose favourite constellation it is.

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

you can see stars from Da Bronx?

Next you'll tell me there's trees there, too.

[gingicat]

Yes to both. :)
Which didn't stop me from gaping open-mouthed at the sky, halfway between Lubbock and Amarillo, in Texas. Not enough of a reason to live in the middle of nowhere, but worth the annoying business trip and co-worker that got me there. :)

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

I do like Orion - he guards my front gate!

As for the kids - well, they're kids. Don't you remember the joy of snow days? I do!

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[browngirl.livejournal.com]

*giggle* Poor kids, with the grownup laughing at them. :)

I didn't really have many snow days, actually. Going to boarding school obviates them, among other things, and when I was little, well, it was fun to watch TV and read instead of school, but I also liked school.

I like the picture, too. :)

Graphics - the "easy" way?????

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I cheated.

Not having any references at hand for fonts or ASKII or whatever, I ...

... wrote myself an email on Excite, choosing "wingdings" as the font, and playing around until I found the symbols I wanted ... snowflake, sun, snowflake ... picked a background color ... picked 2 different text colors and sizes ...

... then emailed it to me at Yahoo! ... where I opened the file, then hit "reply" ... which let me see the coding that created the image I'd made ... and copy it, too ...

... so I pasted that coding into an LJ "comment" ... and used "preview" to tinker (more snowflakes! more lines! change size of snowflakes a little so it all lines up better) until I liked what I had ... and then posted.

Amazing how much work it can be to be lazy, no?

Snow days

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

I loved school when I was a kid .. but still, there was something wonderful about it being cancelled by an act of nature!!!

I can see how boarding schools would tend to pass on the concept, though. (Poor kids! Now, the getting away from the parents part, *that* I would have enjoyed.)

The picture

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap030207.html