On weather

[tarigwaemir]

Ad Mundo Exteriore,

Tomorrow's forecast: "Wind chill reading as low as 40 below." What the...?

I just came back from watching I, Claudius (I read the Robert Graves book once last year but never got to see the BBC version), and despite the bitter cold and my lost hat, it was worth it. I suppose it helped that Boylston's not too far from Greenough, and I ran to keep myself warm.

Still, I will not stir from this room tomorrow. Instead, I will go to sleep early today, get up early tomorrow, and work on my freshman seminar and summer program applications in the morning. (And maybe do laundry too.) Then just before lunch I'll study for the Korean oral final and finally force myself out into the bitter cold to Annenberg and to 5 Bryant Street after that.

I would stay in my room after that, but then there's kendo practice at 6. >_<

I'm going to stay in my room, except for meals at Adams dining hall, this weekend. Also, 10 o'clock Mass on Sunday, so I'll have enough time to study for biology.

I would be able to study much more efficiently if all these review sessions didn't interrupt my library time. But it's too late now...as much as I love Widener and its magical ability to make me concentrate, I'm not venturing out into that cold again. My windchapped lips are bleeding, and I think my cold feet are causing my indigestion.

...Tari

Post-script: Did I mention that my glasses fog up constantly in this wretched, freezing air, and that I can't see when I cross the street? I would have gotten run over by now, if this was New York and not Cambridge.

Post-post-script: Do your contact lenses freeze to your eyeballs if you wear them in subzero temperatures? I need to wear them for practice tomorrow.

Comments

[aetherangelette.livejournal.com]

I don't think contacts freeze... considering they're kinda... inside your head... =/ It's like the same as saying your eyeballs will freeze, right? =/

::actually does not know::

[troisroyaumes]

It'll be like the tears freezing on your eyeballs. Is that possible? ::wonders::

Oh well, have to do it anyway.

...Tari

[gblake.livejournal.com]

This is the coldest it has been in the 7 years I've lived here. I hate it. I feel like I have cabin fever. At least I have a bunch of anime to watch.

[tryogeru.livejournal.com]

You probably will have wore them by now, but I really don't think they would freeze. I mean, they can dry up with the wind and all, and fall out... I don't think your tears really freeze in your eyes anyway, there's all kinds of ions in them and stuff that would probably lower the freezing temperature. I mean, unless you're not blinking for a long time or something.

O.o

[troisroyaumes]

Yeah, yeah, I just realized about freezing point depression. (Still, at those temperatures, the molality of the solution may not have been enough to lower the freezing point sufficiently. I think it was the fact that there are enough blood vessels around to keep the eye sufficiently warm.) I did hear though that in certain climates you can't wear contact lenses, and plus your tears can freeze on your skin, though not actually in your eye.

I suppose if my contacts slipped out they could have been frozen.

...Tari