Stayed up till 4:30 am this morning...
Mar. 5th, 2008 12:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
capri0mniBecause there was a general Tornado Watch for the entire area (a solid line of severe storm for about 100 miles to the north and south of this house) between midnight and three am, and those "Watches" were becoming "Warnings" (as in wake the kids, and climb into the bathtub now) with alarming frequency as the thing came steadily closer from the southwest. And I sure as Hell wasn't going to get out of my chair and sleep in the same room as a 7' by 5' plate glass sliding door.
So I hung out in the bathroom (interior, no windows), where the reading light is good, and read more Jane Austen. I'm getting an inkling of an idea for an English Essay (Enablers! You know who you are!), with the thesis being: "Charles Dickens wrote Plot, but Jane Austen wrote Character."
I would, however, have to go back and reread Dickens, first. But that's just my impression, right now, based on my memory of what reading Dickens felt like, compared to the feeling I'm getting reading Austen: even though she proceeds him by two generations, she feels more modern to me.
Anyway, around 2:30-3:00, I realized I wasn't hearing the wind and thunder anymore, so I ventured out to turn the local news, to see if they were still showing the weather radar, and where that great band of red and yellow and purple was.
The local CBS crew had been on air, continuously, without commercials or breaks, since a little after 11:30. And when I turned them on at 3, they were all rather punchy, to say the least, making jokes about coming in for the morning shift... I bet they all have sleep deprevation headaches, right now (Sympathizes).
You want to argue against global warming some more? huh?
So I hung out in the bathroom (interior, no windows), where the reading light is good, and read more Jane Austen. I'm getting an inkling of an idea for an English Essay (Enablers! You know who you are!), with the thesis being: "Charles Dickens wrote Plot, but Jane Austen wrote Character."
I would, however, have to go back and reread Dickens, first. But that's just my impression, right now, based on my memory of what reading Dickens felt like, compared to the feeling I'm getting reading Austen: even though she proceeds him by two generations, she feels more modern to me.
Anyway, around 2:30-3:00, I realized I wasn't hearing the wind and thunder anymore, so I ventured out to turn the local news, to see if they were still showing the weather radar, and where that great band of red and yellow and purple was.
The local CBS crew had been on air, continuously, without commercials or breaks, since a little after 11:30. And when I turned them on at 3, they were all rather punchy, to say the least, making jokes about coming in for the morning shift... I bet they all have sleep deprevation headaches, right now (Sympathizes).
You want to argue against global warming some more? huh?
