All I came here for was the snow...
...And one week later, it's still not come. (Though a free t-shirt was given to me by the bank I signed up with, but no jokes on it about snow.) Which I'm told wasn't expected to happen.
Unless I was mistaken, there was a flurry earlier, but hardly enough for me to call it my first romp in the snow.
Even New York City's got the same issues. I picked up the dead tree edition of Saturday's New York Times to find on the caption of a photograph titled With Mild Winter, the City Revisits Fall Fashion and the Record Books
:
Karen Flagg with her 3-year-old son, James, on the swings at the Bleecker Street Playground in Greenwich Village. New York City, basking in warm weather, hasn’t gone this long without snow since 1878.
The article is also online.
Other stuff from the same paper, and online:
- Something on obesity in high schools.
- Another story on the numbers of Asians going in to universities.
- Naked parties. Really. At universities. Apparently.
- And, finally, how to cope with soaring tuition fees in the US, or at least how some people are coping.