season of mists

[swatkat]

We're going through that phase of winter in North India where the entire region is enveloped in thick fog, to the point where at times you can't see what's ten metres ahead of you. Nothing is flying. Nothing is moving. And when they are, they're hideously out of schedule. It's the kind of weather we used to read about in the newspapers in our childhood and sigh, because their schools would extend the winter vacation while ours would not.

It's the first time I'm witnessing this in three years, and while I admit that it's incovenient, I'm also secretly very excited about it. Fog! Zero Visibility! Whee!

Comments

[shutterbug-12.livejournal.com]

Sounds exciting in a sort-of-scary way! It would be like making new discoveries with each step! =)

[swatkat24.livejournal.com]

Unless you're driving, then it's a bitch.

But I'm not. And *my* flight was in time, without an incident. So. Whee!

(But it's also inconvenient and bad, and should stop now.)

[shutterbug-12.livejournal.com]

Right. Driving. Right. I was thinking like a kid with a snow day there for a second. All play and no...reality. Ooh, fog. Let's play and pretend we're pirates who just landed at a new, foggy, interesting land.

[swatkat24.livejournal.com]

I *am* being like a kid in a fog day. Because I can. *g*

Let's play and pretend we're pirates who just landed at a new, foggy, interesting land.

I swear it was like that this morning.

[jaybee65.livejournal.com]

I *love* fog (says the San Franciscan)! that sounds just wonderful.

[swatkat24.livejournal.com]

It is! Except for the poor people driving. And stuck in train stations and airports. Or *inside* a train for interminable hours.

Whatever. Let them eat cake. I ♥ fog.

[hihoplastic.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that sounds so cool! And, a bit annoying. But also awesome! You should take pictures. In general. You talk about your campus and the peacocks and such sometimes, and it always makes me want a visual. :)

India sounds so amazing. I really hope I get to travel there someday.

[swatkat24.livejournal.com]

I wish there was a way to keep the fog while getting rid of the annoying inconveniences.

Peacock (http://swatkat24.livejournal.com/129364.html?nc=8). Squirrells (http://swatkat24.livejournal.com/146106.html). I'll try and remember to upload photos of the deer. Our campus is a wonderful place - almost a forest-y oasis in the middle of the city.

India sounds so amazing. I really hope I get to travel there someday.

COME OVER! I suppose perspectives on its amazingness varies, but I promise that it's very, very different.

[hihoplastic.livejournal.com]

awww, deer! I love deer. :) Those squirrells are awesome! We have no striped ones here.

I want to! I need... a lot of money. o.O But someday I'll get there!

[swatkat24.livejournal.com]

awww, deer! I love deer. :)

Ours have horns. Well, the ones on our campus, anyway. Also stripey squirrells. All our squirrells are stripey. There's a lovely little tale about the origin of the stripes as well: <a href='http://jsis.washington.edu/soasia/nathadwara/stripes.shtml>here</a> (the website looks rather ghastly, though). <i>I need... a lot of money.</i> On the brighter side, it's very cheap! One US dollar is equivalent to about 48 rupees. *g*

[sk56.livejournal.com]

It is a lovely story, but the rest of the "squirrels in art" part of the site talks about catching them to cut hairs off their tails to make paintbrushes. They are very careful to point out, though, that they don't harm the squirrels.

[swatkat24.livejournal.com]

It is a lovely story, but the rest of the "squirrels in art" part of the site talks about catching them to cut hairs off their tails to make paintbrushes.

Meep!

[donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com]

That sounds amazing. I'm kinda picturing you all lurching around slowly in a very zombie-esque manner, bumping into each other - but in a good way!

We, on the other hand, have snow. Proper, just-like-in-your-childhood snow. I love it, even though those poor souls who spent half the night stuck on the motorway, because nothing moved, were right pissed off.

[swatkat24.livejournal.com]

I'm kinda picturing you all lurching around slowly in a very zombie-esque manner, bumping into each other - but in a good way!

Hee. I'm enjoying it thoroughly, though I suppose the people stuck in trains and airports and the ones driving in the morning are not.

Snow! I love my fog, but I'm very jealous of your snow. It snows up in the mountains, but never down here. :(

[icarus-abides.livejournal.com]

Wow, that sounds really cool! Well, not if you have to drive in it or anything. But still :D

[swatkat24.livejournal.com]

It is cool! Except for the poor drivers, as you said. And people stuck in airports and train stations.

[favouriteyear.livejournal.com]

lol.

I know exactly what you mean! I used to resent reading in my Geography texts because of extreme heat or extreme cold, their holidays were always, ALWAYS longer than ours.

Curse you Bombay weather! Curse you.

Now, I live in a country where the sun is very whimsical about shining. lol.

[swatkat24.livejournal.com]

I used to resent reading in my Geography texts because of extreme heat or extreme cold, their holidays were always, ALWAYS longer than ours.

EXACTLY. In winter, they got a month and MORE, in summmer they got two whole months, and they even got a brief autumn break in the festival season! I was *so* jealous.

I know what you mean about coastal weather, lol!

[sk56.livejournal.com]

It sounds like our relationship to snow. We've just thawed out from an unusually long (two weeks) snowy time. Pretty when it first falls, and fun for a couple days, and then it's "oh my god, will someone please stop this torture."

[swatkat24.livejournal.com]

I'm very jealous of your snow. Very.

But that said, the sun came up this morning in time, and I'm part relieved and part disappointed.