baby it's cold outside...

[lagilman]

How cold is it today? Pandora refused to get out of bed and take up her usual spot by my desk because the floor was too cold to walk on. Bitter cold: even with the heat on and a solidly-built building, you can still feel the drop in temperature as you move toward the exterior walls. The sole downside to having a corner apartment with a lot of windows.

I also woke up at 6 this morning with the pressure in my sinuses that told me I ain't going nowhere/doin' nuthin today except staying home and drinking lots of warm liquids and sleeping as needed. I canceled my plans, did my essential blogging, and went back to bed...until noon. Me, sleeping until noon. I think the last time I did that I was four days sick with the flu.

But there are books to read, magazines to sort through, tax stuff to file, and home-made corn muffins to nosh on while the soup does its soupy thing. Life could be far worse.

I still wish this cold weather came with snow, though. Pretty snow, not dry barren brown and faded green....


How y'all doin' out there? Whatcha reading?

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[g33kboi.livejournal.com]

Working at the Fruit Stand today, teaching people to not be afraid of their tech. Reading Cathrynne Valente's Palimpsest on my lunch break. Not far into it yet but already fascinated. Tonight, a fun filled evening of laundry and catching up on whatever has accumulated on the dvr. Whee!

[quietselkie.livejournal.com]

Just finished up Ilona Andrews' On the Edge and will be starting Elizabeth Kostova's The Swan Thieves this weekend.

[lagilman]

will be interested to hear your report on THE SWAN THIEVES. I read her first, but was so tired after, wasn't sure I wanted to wade through another....

[quietselkie.livejournal.com]

I liked The Historian quite a lot, but I'll admit I read it at an extremely leisurely pace (it was my bathtub book for about 3 weeks), and it certainly took a couple hundred pages to build up any steam, but after that I was a steady consumer.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Cold up this way, too -- 17F, bright and blue. The wind died, thank ghod. Last night was approaching scary -- right around 9F with 40 mph winds and a windchill of You've GOT to be Kidding Me.

Spent this morning on the sofa with Steve, Hexapuma as referee, examining the State of the Cat Farm. On lunch and email break, then back to the afternoon session, in which we focus on the Confusion Factory.

Still reading Till We have Faces.

[lagilman]

we seem to have maxed out at a high of 17 degrees. I prefer it chilly, but this dry, sharp cold is just brutal.

[burger-eater.livejournal.com]

I'm currently reading Echo Burning by Lee Child (http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780515133318?aff=harryconnolly). I read his first one years ago when I was unpublished and studying debut novels but I didn't care for it in a big way. hradzka suggested I try again with this one, so I am.

Seattle has a high of 55 today. I don't even know why I own a winter hat any more.

[girasole.livejournal.com]

Just finished Laurie R. King's God of the Hive for professional review for Booklist. It is, well, brilliant.

I am oddly comforted by hearing that your sinuses did what mine did, this morning. It is a day to stay in.

[lagilman]

now you're just tauntung (re: the King)

[girasole.livejournal.com]

kradical has the galley, or ARC as they seem to be called now. It has a waiting list, but I will be happy to add you to it. Once you start it, you will not be able to stop.

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

Barely awake and havent checked whats outside... its gray skies though. Picked up a couple of new books last night before the Robin Hobb signing, so I need to inventory them, and probably will start the Katie MacAllister steampunk... at some point I will leave the house to fetch my Sunday paper (which is for sale on saturdays)

[pds-lit.livejournal.com]

When I got up at 5:30 it was 6 degrees and it has not gone above 16 all day. Currently reading The Samurai's Wife by Laura Joh Rowland. Tonight I plan to finish up knitting a pair of socks and then starting a lace shawl in the upstairs living room near the wood stove.

[chaoticgoodnik.livejournal.com]

I just started Jane Bites Back, by Michael Thomas Ford. I suppose this makes me a deeply flawed human being, but I couldn't resist. >.>

[smoemeth.livejournal.com]

I just got back from the East Village where I spent the afternoon helping a friend move some stuff into her storage unit. Manual labor is really the only way to deal with weather like this, but still ... BRRRR.

Now we're headed out into it again -- another friend is having a birthday gathering in Wallingford. BRRRRR.

Shamefully, I'm between books right now ... don't have time to read much that isn't email or Twitter these days, sigh. :/

[madmoravian.livejournal.com]

Normal stuff, slowed down a little by 35 degree weather (Houston -- this is cold for us). Prepping for taxes.

Reading : "The Sparrow" It's okay at the moment. It hasn't really "grabbed" me yet.