Well it's ice and snow on the road outside. At least no one's slid into the ditch right beside the house here yet, though the occasional slippish skree of tires is exciting in the bad way. It was especially sad on Sunday night, when you'd think that none of the people on Van Voorhis had ever seen snow before. My favorite was the person in front of me who obviously panicked, and decided the best plan was to stop when going up an icy hill and turn around in the middle of the road. This disrupted not only the lane of traffic going up the hill (ie, me) but also the lane of traffic trying to go down the icy hill who had to try to stop to let this person do his 4 point turn.

I drive well in the ice and snow -- I also have the right kind of vehicle for it. (Subaru!!!! All-wheel drive, baby!) Living out where I do, however, means that I may not be able to get where I'm going because of the other people on the road.

Just a mini-rant, as I sit here and listen to people actually honking their horns at each other on the icy road outside. Yeah, cause that'll help.

Ah, if only people would drive calmly and reasonably when the weather turns to shit...

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So predictably, I think I'm getting sick. My throat is all scratchy and hurts when I swallow, unless there's hot liquid involved in the swallowing process. (Maybe I should have dropped the "I think" and the "getting" out of that first sentence in the paragraph.) No worries, I've done the chicken noodle thing, and I'm doing the hot tea thing, and all will be as well as sick can be. I don't feel particularly crappy except for being a little tired, it's just that I sound like one of the Bouvier sisters when I talk... It makes me want someone I dislike to have a crisis just so I can croak out "Well, I would say something comforting but, y'know, my throat" and shrug with devilish faux-sympathy.

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I was all happy because I was done with the Algebra 2 class I've been working on for CompuHigh, but it turns out there's one more topic we need to cover. And when I started working on that topic, I realized that I can't cover it effectively without covering another topic first--so, faced with twice the work I thought I'd have, I'm procrastinating. Here are my greatest tools:

The first one I got to through Tim's journal (check my journal's front page for a link to Tim's, I'm lazy), a twisted and offensive little online comic called Something Positive. Here's a link to the beginning in case you are interested. Remember, twisted and offensive.

The second is cute and feel-good -- a now-online comic called Faux Pas. Here's a link to its first comic. Remember, cute and feel-good.

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Michelle (again, go front page, me lazy) sent me something extremely entertaining: this. I have to agree, I'm impressed.

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And with that strange and wondrous note, I will now close my extremely late first journal entry of the year. I need more tea.