Icon was as close as I could get.

[icepixie]

You know you're sick when you're willing to head to the grocery store at 2 PM on a Friday afternoon, the day before snow is called for*, over a route which requires negotiating a giant clusterfrak of a road closure, all in order to get kleenex.

*

I remembered today why I really like working at the scholarly journal I help edit. We're currently reading through the first round of proofs, and I got to read a fabulous article about the "secular faith" in fictional worlds and narratives of history in Braudel, Auerbach, and Tolkien. On some level, this is basically what I always end up writing about in my own scholarship, from the thesis to the Millay paper of late. (Well, it helps that Braudel's ideas and postcolonial theory are fairly incestuous, and...apparently I've fallen by default into postcolonial scholarship. Don't look at me; I just wanted to write about Irish stuff, and that's where I've landed.)

Anyway, I almost certainly would never have read this on my own, but I'm glad I've read it (and fixed its typos and formatting errors). :)


* For those not from the south, any time snow is forecast, everyone down here--and I do mean everyone--rushes out to the grocery store to stock up on bread and milk. It's a ritual akin in ubiquity to, I dunno, high school graduation or something, despite the fact that being truly snowbound around here happens maybe once every couple decades.

Comments

[rowdycamels.livejournal.com]

you're willing to head to the grocery store at 2 PM on a Friday afternoon, the day before snow is called for

OMG GOTTA GET A MONTH'S SUPPLY OF TOILET PAPER JUST IN CASE!!!11!!!

[icepixie]

YOU NEVER KNOW, WE COULD GET A BLIZZARD!!!1!!eleventy!!!

[rowdycamels.livejournal.com]

WE DIDN'T BUY ENOUGH MILK IN 1993 AND LOOK WHAT HAPPENNNNNNNNED!!1!!

[alto2.livejournal.com]

For those not from the south, any time snow is forecast, everyone down here--and I do mean everyone--rushes out to the grocery store to stock up on bread and milk.

You know, I think I am going to start a campaign to explain to the entire planet that people do this EVERYWHERE. It is not regional! I know this because not only do they do it in Pennsylvania where I grew up, and probably around here, but also because every year on LJ I read about a dozen comments just like this from all over the country. Everyone thinks it's unique to them, only it's not!

[pellmelody.livejournal.com]

While I can't relate to the snow because, sadly, I can only remember it snowing twice here in the 21 years I've been in Florida, but I think that "OMG-it's-gonna-snow" clusterfrak is similar to the clusterfrak that occurs when a hurricane is on the horizon.