In a spontaneous gesture, two classmates and I decided to play in the snow. Since the snow was too fluffy to make snowballs and have a proper fight, we decided sumo style with fists of snow fury was the way to go. As I was taking one of them down I somehow was flipped and ended up going head first into a deep bank. I got a seriously compacted cork of snow in my ear canal! It was so bizarre, and quite cold. In all my years of playing in the snow, even having spectacular snowboarding crashes in Aspen, I have never had this happen. Weird.

We went back inside to defrost. Then we had the brilliant idea that we should continue our snow theme and imitate penguins by sliding across a giant boardroom table on our bellies. On my first attempt, I caught my thigh on the edge of the table and ended up doing a booby flop. That's right, a booby flop - with a bounce. Ayna! (That is Afrikaans for 'Ouch'). Subsequent attempts proved much more successful when I had the idea to wrap my abs with my fleece scarf. This allowed for maximum slide down the runway. It was a nice interruption from finals. One paper to go!

I cannot believe the first snowfall of the season is this bad!! I took a few more photos so you can see the progression from last night when it started. They actually cancelled all classes!

I wanted to get some Vicks last night, but it was narly out. Now I'm really screwed because I can't even get out of the parking lot. Aqua Mouse is buried!

At first site of the snow I began to panic. I was thinking to myself, OMG I'm supposed to see the midnight showing of Harry Potter tonight!!! I'll be devastated if it's a mess like this. Then I heard that it's just the Hamburg/Orchard Park area that's getting molested and the location of said midnight showing is clear! Snap!

Ciao!

The first official snowfall at Hilbert, yikes! The little snowflake vampires are on a mission to suck the colour out of everything, blanketing it in a cold and slushy sheet of white. But what's super bizarre is the thunder. A snowing thunderstorm? That's a nature first for me folks. I need to get some Vicks but it's wicked out there!


the view from my apartment


a few hours progression, snow is still falling!