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Feanor of the Peredhil · 12-22-2009, 07:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Eönwë

I suppose you must just get used to the constant below-freezing temperatures in winter after a while.

Steve, it's constantly below freezing in New York as well. So the freezing point really isn't a good measure of Alaska.

I mean, tomorrow's high here is supposed to be -6 C, with snow. Today's high was around -7 C. And while it's cold, I don't consider it really cold until it hits -26 C.

I'm totally with them: if it had been above freezing, I'd have been wearing a light jacket.

Eönwë · 12-22-2009, 07:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Feanor of the Peredhil

Steve, it's constantly below freezing in New York as well. So the freezing point really isn't a good measure of Alaska.

I mean, tomorrow's high here is supposed to be -6 C, with snow. Today's high was around -7 C. And while it's cold, I don't consider it really cold until it hits -26 C.

I'm totally with them: if it had been above freezing, I'd have been wearing a light jacket.

Well, I meant that freezing point is a good measure of the UK. We are really quite a warm country considering our latitude.

Lindale · 12-28-2009, 02:26 AM

I finally got The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún this Christmas! Yay! Though it costs over a thousand pesos, I used all my savings, plus five hundred from my brother, because I just couldn't let it pass. And I couldn't wait for the softcover edition, which was what I did with Children of Húrin.

Also, I found a copy of Ibsen's major plays and The Little Book of Matisse in a second-hand bookshop, for just less than fifty each!

Groin Redbeard · 12-28-2009, 09:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Lindale

I finally got The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún this Christmas! Yay! Though it costs over a thousand pesos, I used all my savings, plus five hundred from my brother, because I just couldn't let it pass. And I couldn't wait for the softcover edition, which was what I did with Children of Húrin.

Good for you! I have had my eye on that book for a while. You just can't beat Northern Mythology!

Mnemosyne · 12-28-2009, 10:52 AM

Pajamas fresh out of the dryer.

Inziladun · 12-28-2009, 02:48 PM

Home-made chocolate cake and a week off at home with my 5 year old.

Loslote · 01-09-2010, 06:11 PM

For once, sparcely inhabited towns. Since mine was the only school in my district to try the Poetry Out Loud competition, I get to skip regionals and go straight to state!

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