A Dispatch from Snow-topia
Dec. 4th, 2008 07:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
missroseroseIt's snowing like crazy outside. Should be a pretty busy phone day here at work. I wonder what the proportion of "You haven't plowed up here yet" complaints to "You've plowed and left a berm in my driveway" complaints will be?
Now that Brian and I aren't working at the same place, I was a tad concerned about what to do when going in to work - Brian leaves an hour earlier than I do, and no one's really in the office for a while after that. Fortunately the downtown grocery store is only a ten-minute walk away (and that's in this kind of snow), so I just hung out there and had some coffee and read my book.
While we were in Anchorage, I finally broke down and bought myself a nice coat. I've been wearing my periwinkle Columbia dual-layer windbreaker-style coat for three years now, and while it still works, it's not exactly the height of fashion. I'll still have it for skiing and whatnot, but thanks to Banana Republic having a sale on all their outerwear, I managed to snag a bright red wool trench coat for half the price of my Columbia jacket (and significantly less than the price of a similar one from L.L. Bean). Brian even found an adorable grey fedora to go with it, and my mother stuck a sprig of holly in it for a festive touch. I've gotten lots of compliments on the ensemble. It's good to feel like I look nice, especially since Brian recently invested in a lovely brown cashmere topcoat. Now we can both go out and be mad stylin'.
(Yes, I'll do my best to get pictures. No, I don't know when. Hush you.)
Justin came over last night, and we all watched the Peter Cook/Dudley Moore version of Bedazzled. Mmm, British comedy. Even though it was a tad dated (as you'd expect from a movie that came out in 1969), it was pretty hilarious, thanks in no small part to a fantastic performance on Peter Cook's part as The Devil. (I'm about 110% certain that there was a significant amount of influence there for the character of Crowley in Good Omens, especially given that both stories feature an order of nuns dedicated to a St. Beryl.) Admittedly, it didn't have Elizabeth Hurley and her truly awe-inspiring wardrobe from the 2000 remake, but Raquel Welch had a pretty good turn as Lust, and the script was far cleverer.
The power appears to be out all over town; we've got generators here, so it's no big deal for us, and it might be contributing to how quiet the phone's been so far this morning. Amusingly, the only FM station in town that appears to have power is the country station, and they've gone off the air (probably to conserve gas in their generators). So now we're down to our Hometown Radio AM station. It's a little creepy, scrolling through the whole band and not hearing anything but static, especially when you don't have a window in your office to confirm that the outside world is still there.
Just got an update over the aforementioned AM station - apparently the so-far-hour-long-outage has to do with multiple problems coming up faster than they can resolve them (trees on the lines, transmission towers having trouble, etc.). So the crew here aren't the only ones who are running around with their chickens cut off, as BD says...
Now that Brian and I aren't working at the same place, I was a tad concerned about what to do when going in to work - Brian leaves an hour earlier than I do, and no one's really in the office for a while after that. Fortunately the downtown grocery store is only a ten-minute walk away (and that's in this kind of snow), so I just hung out there and had some coffee and read my book.
While we were in Anchorage, I finally broke down and bought myself a nice coat. I've been wearing my periwinkle Columbia dual-layer windbreaker-style coat for three years now, and while it still works, it's not exactly the height of fashion. I'll still have it for skiing and whatnot, but thanks to Banana Republic having a sale on all their outerwear, I managed to snag a bright red wool trench coat for half the price of my Columbia jacket (and significantly less than the price of a similar one from L.L. Bean). Brian even found an adorable grey fedora to go with it, and my mother stuck a sprig of holly in it for a festive touch. I've gotten lots of compliments on the ensemble. It's good to feel like I look nice, especially since Brian recently invested in a lovely brown cashmere topcoat. Now we can both go out and be mad stylin'.
(Yes, I'll do my best to get pictures. No, I don't know when. Hush you.)
Justin came over last night, and we all watched the Peter Cook/Dudley Moore version of Bedazzled. Mmm, British comedy. Even though it was a tad dated (as you'd expect from a movie that came out in 1969), it was pretty hilarious, thanks in no small part to a fantastic performance on Peter Cook's part as The Devil. (I'm about 110% certain that there was a significant amount of influence there for the character of Crowley in Good Omens, especially given that both stories feature an order of nuns dedicated to a St. Beryl.) Admittedly, it didn't have Elizabeth Hurley and her truly awe-inspiring wardrobe from the 2000 remake, but Raquel Welch had a pretty good turn as Lust, and the script was far cleverer.
The power appears to be out all over town; we've got generators here, so it's no big deal for us, and it might be contributing to how quiet the phone's been so far this morning. Amusingly, the only FM station in town that appears to have power is the country station, and they've gone off the air (probably to conserve gas in their generators). So now we're down to our Hometown Radio AM station. It's a little creepy, scrolling through the whole band and not hearing anything but static, especially when you don't have a window in your office to confirm that the outside world is still there.
Just got an update over the aforementioned AM station - apparently the so-far-hour-long-outage has to do with multiple problems coming up faster than they can resolve them (trees on the lines, transmission towers having trouble, etc.). So the crew here aren't the only ones who are running around with their chickens cut off, as BD says...
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Date: 2008-12-04 08:02 pm (UTC)I bet your new coat looks smashing on you!
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Date: 2008-12-04 08:04 pm (UTC)I think my new coat looks quite smashing, especially when I'm fully decked out with black scarf and leather gloves and fedora. I really will try to get a picture up soon. Hopefully of Brian too - his new coat looks great on him.
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