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I wanted to go to a benefit fundraiser tonight for a very worthy cause, but then the local news started shrieking about an eight inch snowfall coming, and scrolling all sorts of closures and warnings omg, and as the world knows I am deeply chicken of driving in heavy snow. (This is a Californian thing.)

I wasn't worried about getting there, really, just getting home. But then I decided I was weak, and got dressed and got into the car and drove all the way to the first large street out of my neighborhood, and there were no other cars about and the road was slippery and my resolve failed. I kept thinking... The Gift of Fear... The Gift of Fear... listen to your instincts, you've got a bad feeling, listen...

There's no shocking end to this story. It just peters out. :) I turned around and went back home and managed to drive the back alley without getting stuck, so. I'll drop off my modest contribution on Monday. No yummy potluck for me tonight -- these Midwesterners ROCK the potluck, if you can only get to their events alive. :)

I did manage to pick up some snow panic!supplies today... a very odd, distracted assortment. A tub of potato salad on sale. Some kind of strange cheese spread (swiss almond? Isn't that an ice cream flavor?) also on sale. A single unripe tomato, on sale. Two cans of off-brand tuna -- the first of my life. I never have to do with off-brand tuna, it just seems chancey to me. I guess I'll find out.

Did I buy crackers for the weird cheese spread? WHY NO I DID NOT. That would have been logical. At home I went through four half empty boxes of ancient stale crackers and found nothing edible, so the cheese spread ended up on Cheezits. It was... strangely okay.

I started a three page fancomic last night, but tomorrow work starts in earnest again, and there are taxes to be done UGH, so I don't know how soon I'll be able to complete it.

So I'm reading ontd_political, and letting the TV natter because I'm saving my dvd of Curb Your Enthusiasm for the bleak weekend. How's everybody? I bet all of you have spring already, dontcha? *wistful*

EDIT: OMG, somebody ratted out scans_daily and got the comm suspended. ARRRRGGGHHH

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