Ready for my rant? Okay, here goes:
It was sooo cold the past two days! Seriously. It was 3pm and it was BEYOND FREEZING! Coupled with the wind, it was a miserable walk to and from class. I look out the window before I leave to make sure its not snowing or something, and what I see is the sun! This is not normal in Logan I have come to find out. We have lots of cloud cover. But it was clear skies and sunny! I was excited. So I put on my warm but light jacket and walked outside. I go up around my apartment and start up the stupid hill and the wind was blasted into my face! Thats when it fully hit me. It. Was. Cold. No, not even cold. It was Siberian, algid, arctic, below freezing, below zero,benumbed, biting, bitter, blasting, bleak, boreal,brisk, brumal, chill, chilled, cool, crisp, cutting,frigid, frore, frosty, frozen, gelid, glacial, havegoose bumps, hawkish, hiemal, hyperborean,icebox, iced, icy, inclement, intense, keen,nipping, nippy, numbed, numbing, one-dog night,penetrating, piercing, polar, raw, rimy, severe,sharp, shivery, sleety, snappy, snowy, stinging,two-dog night, and wintry.(Yes, that is the whole thesaurus.com entry for the word 'cold'.)
I swear. I needed to wear a full on body suit in order to be warm at all. I almost felt as if I was walking on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. In my mind I can just hear Leo DiCaprio saying "It hits you like a thousand knives stabbing you all over your body. You can't breathe. You can't think. At least, not about anything but the pain".
Okay, that might be a bit of an exaggeration in this instance. It just screams hyperbole. But really. It was so cold! All I wanted to to was go home as soon I could and turn on my mattress heater and curl up under my blankets.
But I had to go to class so I was not afforded that luxury. And what a luxury it would have been! It sounded like heaven to me during those moments of battling the icy wind. I'm thinking of writing a poem, using all of the best diction I can conjure up. Heaven knows
I can think up something. Check back later. Maybe I will post it.
As always (at least until my ears are defrosted),
AmandaInLogan
