Update

[jere7my]

It was 40° in our apartment when I woke up. The fire and sunlight got it up to 43° before we left for the friendly Scottish dance party (and Flurry-substitute) I am now at. I boiled water over the fire, enough to wash my hands and face, but had to wait until we got here for a shower. Now, I work while adfamiliares dances, because my Google sabbatical begins at midnight. Yeep.

No real news about when power will be restored, but we have heard the words "Sunday afternoon" thrown around on the radio. Fingers crossed. I'm not looking forward to going home tonight; the low is expected to be 5°, not counting the wind chill.

In happier news, good old Louie is here, as is Beth (genarti), whom I met at a ball in Albany last October. It's good to see her again, and to finally get her LJ username.

Comments

[flammifera.livejournal.com]

::glances at her userinfo from routine, casual curiosity::

::sees a few recognized but unexpected usernames:: (e.g., Swarthmore '03 friends)

::boggles at how small t3h 1nt4rw3b is::

::curiosity grows at how mostly-unrelated circles of my friends know this person::

[wayman.livejournal.com]

Not to mention the filkers I've met (and who are LJ friends of orawnzva) or the person who's Swat/SWIL '08....

[jere7my.livejournal.com]

Who jumped out at you? I apparently don't know many '03ers; I only boggled when I saw kyree. :)

[flammifera.livejournal.com]

(Hmm, somehow this comment appeared somewhere else when I first left it.)

kazulrw and tamias are Swarthmore '03; I don't know the person you boggled at, so we're even. ;) Actually, I'm surprised you don't know tamias -- he was our resident Swarthmore piper! Until he went off to Scotland to study the pipes there for a year.

However, I don't mean to be rude or weird in talking about someone else's friendslist -- my brain temporarily overloaded when I posted the first comment, and I didn't think how it might come across. Perhaps someone involved would kindly elaborate for those of us who are sick at home, and thus indulging in random procrastination more than usual? :)

[jere7my.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know Hollis; I just didn't recognize his username.

[tirerim.livejournal.com]

batyatoon is also on her list, and I know that kyree and batyatoon also know one another (though I forget how), so that might explain that connection.

But then I also noticed strange_selkie, whose username I recognize from both rushthatspeaks (Bryn Mawr '04) and debka_notion (Brandeis '06, and who I only know through qianian).

Small world indeed.

[genarti]

*grins, and friends*

See, I do not hate you!

Here's hoping you have power to see this by.

[jere7my.livejournal.com]

Hooray, no hate!

And yes, power as of 5AM. *happy sigh*