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You may recall me posting about starting a reread of The Wheel of Time and not being as enchanted with it on the second time ’round. I was a bit less than halfway through the first book when I wrote that post; I proceeded to read the next four hundred pages of the book in something like three hours, so apparently whatever was bothering me wore off abruptly. Which is good, because otherwise the end of the book, where they search for the Eye of the World in an area called, I am not making this up, the Mountains of Dhuum, because calling it “Mount Doom” would be too obvious, would have made me throw the book across the room.

Another weird detail I didn’t remember: two chapters repeated, in their entirety, toward the end of the paperback. As a printing error, no big deal– but the page numbers continue in proper order. Normally when that happens the page numbers get screwed up too. I’m going to do some research to make sure my copy isn’t missing chapters; I doubt it, as the narrative continues smoothly and the chapters are consecutively numbered, but it’s worth looking into.

You may also recall me recommending that you pick up G. Willow Wilson’s Ms. Marvel #1, which just debuted last Wednesday and is certainly still available at comic shops nationwide. I am now adding to that recommendation her novel Alif the Unseen, which I read from cover to cover this morning and is marvelous. It’s also so completely weird and screwed up that I refuse to tell you anything about it other than that you should buy it right now and read it.

Walking Dead starts up again tonight, which keeps intermittently making me very happy, until I remember that I watch it through iTunes and so I won’t be able to actually see it until tomorrow night. This keeps happening; it’s like an incredibly specialized version of Alzheimer’s. “WOOHOO! WALKING DEAD! Oh, shit, not until tomorrow.”

…I had more, but I can’t remember what it is anymore. I’m having another sickish day today and it’s apparently messing with my ability to concentrate. So, yeah.

…unexplained. And maybe ripped off from somewhere? I hope not?

Let’s see. When I got up this morning, I was expecting to discover that I was going to have to go to work. Our final forecast before I went to bed was that we were going to get between three and six inches of snow overnight, and unless it’s paired with crippling cold or some other external circumstance three to six inches of snow just isn’t enough to close school around here. I woke up at six, checked my phone, and discovered that not only were we open, but so were the other two big districts in the area. Generally if one of the “Big Three” closes, it seems to create a domino effect (probably, mind you, entirely imaginary) where the other two quickly follow suit. I lazed around a bit, looking at Facebook and Twitter, and then randomly went back and looked at the closed list again.

Big District #1 had closed in the five minutes I was web surfing. And make no mistake: waiting until past 6 AM to close is a late decision. But… still. Domino effect?

I find that it doesn’t matter what I say at night, and yesterday I very much did not want school to close. At 6 am, when I’m in bed and warm? Close close close close close I don’t wanna go to work.

I gave up at 6:25 and finally jumped in the shower, but the list got a lot longer fast after Big District #1 closed. #2 and ours never followed suit, though. I’ve got my eye on Friday now; I’m expecting school tomorrow, but it’s looking like we’ve got yet another wave of subzero temperatures heading our way Thursday night and Friday morning and the cold will close us a lot quicker than the snow will.

Driving to work was fun, too; what looked like three inches in our driveway turned out to be seven or eight (turns out the huge ice dams on either side of the driveway– which, as you can see in the last post are nearly two feet deep now, are seriously screwing with my ability to estimate how much new snowfall we’ve gotten) and getting home involved destroying nearly two feet of built-up plowed ice at the foot of my driveway before my wife got home with her non-4X4 car.

I still like winter better than summer, but I think I’m ready for spring now.

Two quick notes: if you’re a comic book person and you didn’t buy G. Willow Wilson’s relaunch of Ms. Marvel today, get your ass to a comic store before they close and get one now. That good. Also, I think I just figured out what BA 6 is about.