-I woke up this morning and there was snow on the ground. Not a lot, but a little white dusting in the cracks on the asphalt and on the edges of the sidewalks. I freaked out. Turns out, it was FAKE SNOW. There's some Finnish exhibit at Earlham Park (apparently, Finns live in very Native-American-looking teepees), which invovled fake snow and reindeer, and overnight the fake snow blew all over campus and made it look like it actually snowed a bit. I think someone's trying to break my heart.

-IT NEEDS TO BE PROPER WINTER NOW. GAH. Winter is my favorite season, and it just doesn't seem to get to be winter here. It never goes below 45 degrees F. It probably won't snow at all, ever. I'm told January and February are the coldest, most wintery months, but what's the use of cold and snow if it isn't around for Christmas? Well, I still like it in January, I suppose, but around the end of February, I'm sick of it. One of the top reasons I'm looking forward to home is the weather: apparently it snowed this weekend from DC to PA to CT, and I wanted to cry.

-Note to self: things on the HMV website are cheaper than they actually are in-store. Blah.

-I braved Argos for the first time today, and I've decided I actually quite like it. For Americans: Imagine the huge Sears/JC Penny catalogue that's the size of a brick. Now imagine a store where things aren't on shelves, where it's just a bunch of these huge catalogues on podiums and a counter. This is Argos. You flick through the magazine, pick what you want, write down the number on a bit of paper, and bring it to the counter. You pay for it, and whatever you bought comes out on a chute a few minutes later, and an employee hands it to you. It's actually really weird, but it seems to work. I bought a new lamp there today. It works very well, but it turns out that it's not really the sort of lamp I was looking for: it's a nice desk lamp, but my old one filled the whole room with light so I didn't have to use the stupud flouresent lights (I hate flouresent lighting). This one is like an intense spotlight for a small area. Sigh. Good for my desk, but I might need to buy a cheapo shade lamp to get the desired effect.

-Borders is closing in the UK. I'm fairly certain the US branches are still up and running, but it makes me sad. Waterstones is the equivalent of Barnes and Noble here, and I have a Waterstones card, but Borders...just makes me happy. I was thrilled to find that they existed in the UK, but now they don't anymore. The bright side is that I got a few cheap books to read on the plane on Saturday, but the downside is that there's not a huge bookstore in Chapelfields for me to kill time in anymore. And now I'm going to have to go all the way to House of Fraser at the end of the mall to get to a Paperchase. Oh, woe is me.