Thank goodness I bought all those books yesterday

13 March 2006

I woke up this morning, took a look outside, and giggled out loud a little cuz all that snow they were talking about showing up was basically a bunch of hoo-ha. Then I yawned and took a shower.

(This is a good story so far, isn't it?)

I then proceeded to get dressed and open up the blinds only to be confronted with this:

I'm not sure how all of THAT managed to flatten Minneapolis within 45 minutes, but just in case you need a little reminder this is what I'm supposed to see from my living room window:

For the first time ever, I'M SNOWED IN! As in, like, I can't get to work today. Ha ha ha, suckers. All my friends who walk to work and make fun of me for driving out to the burbs for work everyday aren't laughing from their cubes this morning I guaran-darn-tee it. Neither are all the people I saw sitting in traffic when I walked to the coffee shop around the corner for my daily fix. This actually turned out to be a good thing cuz I had *no* idea so many hotties frequented that coffee shop. Yow! Um, yeah. I'll be going back there, well, a lot from now on. Snow days are all cool 'n stuff.

In other news, yesterday I got a bunch of my photographs printed up thanks to all your help. Sure it was all fun and games, but then I went back to pick them up and was confronted with a big, burly, shaved-head manager who proceeded to tell me he couldn't give me my prints until I signed a release form. Why would he do something like this? Oh right, that would be because... how did he put it, "These photographs are borderline... questionable. They're too professional looking to be yours so we need you to sign this release saying they *are* in fact yours. This is really standard stuff so we don't get sued by the person they might belong to - and if they are yours, then you can just sign it and have nothing to worry about."

You know what's so funny about all this? I was *IN* 2 of the 12 photographs I had printed!! Honestly I don't know whether I'm flattered or offeneded by the whole encounter... but something just kinda feels wrong about having to defend my own photos to a complete stranger.

I'm gonna go crawl back into my cozy, warm bed with a book now because, I CAN! Ha ha. Have fun at work today ya'll.

EDITED: Ah yes, the final selections:

Comments

Since your all snowed in and stuff...I hope we get to see your collage sometime today =)

Posted by char on March 13, 2006 10:34 AM:

Everyone seems to be posting pictures of their window view...
Not to be out-done (shameless bored out of my mind plug) check out my view during the snowstorm. Another view is here.

If you do go out, please be careful! Try and have some fun today...

I'm glad you still have power. My sister already called complaining and jokingly said she's escaping on the next plane out of there.

Posted by Josh on March 13, 2006 10:41 AM:

I. Hate. You.

*whine* I want a snow day. I want to skip work. *whine*

Posted by Steve on March 13, 2006 11:26 AM:

*Whew*. Just got the power turned back on.

Um, so yeah. The power went out in my buildling JUST after I got done posting this entry. At least I wasn't that sad person stuck in the elevator when it happened. Ha ha ha, so *not* funny.

Posted by sopheava on March 13, 2006 11:39 AM:

I wish I had a camera right now (damn you thieves for stealing my digital). The backyard at my place looks so beautiful.

So what were the final pictures you had printed up?

Posted by Bryan on March 13, 2006 12:59 PM:

The final tally:

Drive-by Clowning
Minneapolis Skyline
Tube Station
Pigeons in Trafalgar Square
Gamla Stan
A Mickey's Regular
So Much Confusion
Mystery Man
Gold Medal Flour
Sunset
Trains
Prairie Ho (although they splotched this one up and I ended up binning it)

Posted by sopheava on March 13, 2006 1:11 PM:

Lucky you... we were without power for 11 hours. So, I spent the morning snowblowing the neighborhood. So , what did I do when the power came back on? Get back on the Internet. Addiction?

Posted by Christopher on March 13, 2006 1:33 PM:

You think that's bad? I was without internet for appr. 2.5 hours and felt a little bit dead inside. Seriously, what did people *do* before the internet? I can't even remember!

Posted by sopheava on March 13, 2006 1:39 PM:

Wow...looking at your view, I realize you must live directly above my good friend, who I am going to visit this weekend. I love that view, and really miss it, as I have lived in the South for about two years now.

Appreciate the snow...the change of seasons is wonderful. As a photog, you are certainly aware of this! :)

Posted by SpellsGood on March 13, 2006 2:20 PM:

What the hell did we do before the internet? Seriously. I am perplexed.

Posted by Bryan on March 13, 2006 3:34 PM:

I'm just as perplexed like everyone else...I may have read a book or actually went to the mall I'm not really sure...but all I know is I can't live without it.

Posted by char on March 13, 2006 4:20 PM:

OK, now is when I scare everyone by saying that I'm planning a two week vacation to get away from the Internet/Cellphone on the shores of Lake Superior. And I can't wait.

Posted by Steve on March 13, 2006 4:33 PM:

I'm soo glad you used the "Prairie Ho".
*warm fuzzy*
Does that mean I get my cookie?

Oh yeah, and before there was internet people read newspapers that were DELIVERED (gasp) instead of read online.

Bonus: They even completed the crosswords without being able to cheat.

Posted by Josh on March 13, 2006 4:34 PM: