It Starts

SNOW TIME!!!

This either showed up late last night or early this morning (my guess is early this morning because I remember hearing loud winds and my mother worrying about my brothers driving to school).

So I guess this is technically the first snow of the season.

It's all downhill from here, folks.

It's warm outside but the wind is cold

Holy shit it's almost December!

Also, it is cold out. I can only assume that the snow will be coming shortly. Yay.

I was subbing at school today and helping out with the little kids when I suddenly realized something important: it's almost snowsuit season.

Fuck.

Anyone who has ever had to help put multiple small children into snow gear in a set time frame will know the dread I am feeling right now.

Fucking hooray for winter.

New things I've gotten into

I've come across so many new things since I joined tumblr last year.

A lot of it is nsfw, but most of it is pretty damn entertaining.

One of those things is the British radio sitcom Cabin Pressure, written by John Finnemore (who is a genius as far as I'm concerned); and performed by John Finnemore, Stephanie Cole, Roger Allam, and Benedict Cumberbatch.

It's fucking hilarious and I love it.

I've only listened to the first season so far and it is one of the funniest things I've ever heard. I recommend it to everybody.

Also, this shirt is awesome (even if I still don't really understand the whole lemon thing... I haven't heard that episode yet).

I got this shirt from Qwertee (another awesome thing I discovered on tumblr) back when it was for sale. It's no longer up on Qwertee (and I don't think it will be again) but it's on Redbubble (just search 'Cabin Pressure' and you should be able to find it easily).

So, to recap: Cabin Pressure is hilarious and 10 different kinds of awesome and you should listen to it, and Qwertee is amazing and has awesome t-shirts for sale at a fairly decent price.

Also tumblr is awesome, you should get on that too.

well here's something you don't see anymore

I buy a lot of used books.

Really.

Actually, most of the books I buy nowadays are used books. The biggest reason for it is mostly because the books are cheaper used. Depending on where I buy it I can get a normally 20+$ book for about 5$. No complaints about that. Another reason to get used books is so I can get books that are out of print or otherwise hard to find.

Most of my used books come from consignment shops and stores like Value Village, but lately I've been getting most of my books from betterworldbooks.com, which has an enormous variety of books to choose from at awesome prices and a lot of sales.

One of the books I bought recently is Lois Duncan's The Twisted Window, which apparently came from a library because this is what I found in the back:



I haven't used one of these in a long time (years, really), not since the libraries in my area started using bar codes to keep track of their books.

It's both nostalgic and amusing because I can remember having to deal with these cards when I borrowed library books as a child, good times those.

I come across books sometimes that either have the pocket or scraps of paper from where the pocket's been ripped out, but I rarely find books that still have actual cards still in the pockets.

Quite amusing, that.

my dad is hilarious

I was watching A Room With a View in the living room this afternoon and my dad happened to walk in at the scene where George Emerson, Freddy Honeychurch and Mr Beebe are swimming naked in the lake and George jumps into the lake.

He looks at me and asks: "What movie are you watching?"

I tell him: "A Room With a View."

He replies: "That's quite the view." And then he leaves to continue on to whatever it was he was doing.

I spent the following few minutes giggling quietly into my computer.