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panik at 11:37pm on 18/01/2007 under chapel hill
panik at 11:37pm on 18/01/2007 under chapel hillIn North Carolina; about an inch or two. You'd've thought it was Armageddon.
Really, it was quite delightful. The staff at the hotel were leaping around like children. The two shuttle-bus guys were throwing snowballs out front. They closed some roads, they closed schools. It was almost as bad as when it snows in Britain. ::G::
This jet lag is a curious animal. I thought I was all over it. I went out with the lovely
snycock again last night (the night before we went out to a great veggie restaurant and I failed to finish my dinner) and had a very groovy time chatting with a group of her friends and failing to finish my starter (never made it to the main course (o:). I had my Tarot read, which was mostly glowing and pretty and nice.
I felt fine all night, though I'd seriously thought I wasn't going to make it, having peeled m'self from the bed just half an hour before, forcing myself into the shower with a 'nnnrghh, wha's hap'n'n dude' way about me. I was OK then. but still managed to sleep a full 6 hours before my 5.45 wake up this morning for the 7am breakfast meeting, feeling hale, bouncing and chipper until I blanked out totally at one-ish, collapsed into my bed in a state of some confusion and have been more or less solidly asleep ever since.
Tea helps. God bless travel kettles.
In other news, the schenanigans in the CBB house have made page 8 of USA Today, and I hear it's a tad breezy back home.
Stay warm, my babies
Really, it was quite delightful. The staff at the hotel were leaping around like children. The two shuttle-bus guys were throwing snowballs out front. They closed some roads, they closed schools. It was almost as bad as when it snows in Britain. ::G::
This jet lag is a curious animal. I thought I was all over it. I went out with the lovely
snycock again last night (the night before we went out to a great veggie restaurant and I failed to finish my dinner) and had a very groovy time chatting with a group of her friends and failing to finish my starter (never made it to the main course (o:). I had my Tarot read, which was mostly glowing and pretty and nice.I felt fine all night, though I'd seriously thought I wasn't going to make it, having peeled m'self from the bed just half an hour before, forcing myself into the shower with a 'nnnrghh, wha's hap'n'n dude' way about me. I was OK then. but still managed to sleep a full 6 hours before my 5.45 wake up this morning for the 7am breakfast meeting, feeling hale, bouncing and chipper until I blanked out totally at one-ish, collapsed into my bed in a state of some confusion and have been more or less solidly asleep ever since.
Tea helps. God bless travel kettles.
In other news, the schenanigans in the CBB house have made page 8 of USA Today, and I hear it's a tad breezy back home.
Stay warm, my babies
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That's a keeper, that mental image. Living south a couple of states from NC, I can empathize with the frolickers -- I get a little giddy myself when we have snow, once every decade or so.
Hope your jet lag sorts itself out post haste.
Wait a minute. You're in the South. And you had a 7 a.m. breakfast meeting? Wow. Didn't know that was possible. In my stretch of the South, even an 8 a.m. meeting would be considered to be pushing the boundaries of what is both polite and physically possible. If somebody here had the temerity to schedule a meeting of any sort at 7 in the morning, nobody would come.
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The con is mostly people from up north. I haven't heard a southern accent amongst them yet.
But LOL! I thought it was weird when we walked into Chapel Hill early a couple of days ago and it was all dead and shut!
My US experience is mostly confined to NYC, Seattle and Miami. This is all very different; quite delightful, I must say. People couldn't be friendlier and they have the most delicious accent. I fact, I've had many a strange exchange that goes;
"A' gadda saye, A' luurve yow accent."
"Well, I love yours."
"Naw, yaws is juuust beautiful!"
"Well so is yours."
And etc till my coffee goes cold. But we go away just loving each other to death. ::G::
And why is butter so expensive here? $6 for a regular sized slab that would cost 50p ($1) at home! I thought Southern cooking floated on a sea of saturated fats!
Where are you, then, honey - I'm guessing Georgia...?
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That figures. Only Yankees would be so *uncivilized.* (Disregarding the fact that by Southern definitions, I'm a Yankee, too.)
I thought it was weird when we walked into Chapel Hill early a couple of days ago and it was all dead and shut!
Usually I love the slowness of the South, how things just rarely start early (although that's changing more and more). But in summertime it's a total pain because it's just too hot to wait until 9 or 10 for most businesses to open so you can get your errands done before your car tires fuse with the asphalt.
My US experience is mostly confined to NYC, Seattle and Miami. This is all very different; quite delightful, I must say. People couldn't be friendlier...
Oh, I so agree with that. I grew up in the Midwest (& have traveled some in Florida and New England) and the people in the South are just... different. The times I've returned to the Midwest for a visit, I've been astonished at how brusque and fast-talking everybody there seems to me now. I know people are still nice *there* too -- but it's kind of like the contrast between honey and vinegar. (Not that I have anything against vinegar!)
they have the most delicious accent
*Oh* yes. Wish I had a real Southern accent myself. Or a British one. Or Irish. Or Australian. Or lived in places where people *have* those accents. ((Okay, I live among Southern accents, but I often wish I could live farther afield.)
And why is butter so expensive here?
Um. I don't know? All dairy stuff has been going up a lot lately. The cows are on strike? People are supposed to just use strange corporate margerines? But it seems to me that *real* butter has often been considered to be a luxury, at least in the places I've lived. EVen though, yes, Southern cooking can really shine with the saturated fats. It's all a puzzle to me.
Where are you, then, honey - I'm guessing Georgia...?
Um hmm. Savannah. Never been to Chapel Hill though I know people who went to college there or at Duke, and I know how much they loved that part of the world.
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Savannah *is* beautiful (well, the beautiful parts are really beautiful *g*). I've traveled more south from Savannah than north (except for the nearer bits of SC, like Charleston), so I don't know NC at all except for one visit to Asheville in its lovely mountains. I'd love to know it more; it seems like a beautiful state from coast to mountains.
And it's so nice to know other that people in this part of the world are enlightened and appreciate the finer things in life... ;-)
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7am breakfast meeting? You are brave. Hooray for travel kettles! Yes, definately a lifesaver.*G*
Glad to hear you're having an enjoyable time. Look after yourself.
*Hugs*
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Glad you are having a good time despite the jet lag, and have tea. A Brit without tea just doesn't bear thinking about!
::hugs you mightily:: (as I haven't seen you for ages!)
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::hugs you a big one back - and it will be a VERY big one if I keep on scarfing the artichoke dip the way I have been::
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For your own safety, put the dip down, step away from the dip!
:o)
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And I'm just sure you're going to come home with a wonderful new accent *g* ::loves it::
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*New* accent? But, I have no accent!
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BTW, I got the disc yesterday - THANK YOU!!! You're an angel!!
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Oh gosh, I'm not, you know - but glad you think so ::G:: Have you watched it yet? It's the BEST - T HEvery best thing going! I could watch it every day and never tire of it.
I'll send you some more as soon as I'm home. The trouble with The MT disk is, it's such a bother to copy, I didn't have time to do any more for you and get them posted before I left!