Spot the Minnesotan

[cosmolinguist]

Everyone else on this bus has a coat or a jumper on, and I'm in a sleeveless dress and sandals.

Comments

[mother_bones]

Yeah, yeah.. you so tough little 'Ms.you call that SNOW?!' ;-P

BTW, just in tme for spring, I finished that blanket for you - it only took 4 months to 20 minutes sewing!

[andrewhickey.info]

I shall remind Holly of this entry the next time she complains that it's too cold. Which will be the next time we're in the same room.

[cosmolinguist]

Being out in the sunshine is different. Now that we live in a house that occasionally gets some sunlight, and it's not winter just at the moment, I might complain less.

[cosmolinguist]

It'll still get used! I've been thinking I want something to have downstairs for the evenings; it's still chilly but I can't reliably work don't want to turn on the heating.

[rmc28]

I frequently cycle to work in a tshirt and pass / am passed by people huddled in scarves and coats.

(Not a Minnesotan, but pregnancy seems to have left me with a run-hot setting)

[cosmolinguist]

Well cycling always keeps the body heat up, too. I would frequently have to choose between "jacket off and drenched with rain" or "jacket on and drenched with sweat", even though it was a thin jacket, just because my body was heating itself up that much.

Ah, those were the days. Now it's less likely to get stolen, I'm planning to buy a bike again. :)

[rmc28]

Well yes, but the other people I'm talking about were also cycling ...

[rosamicula.livejournal.com]

Everyone on the bus will assume you are from Essex or Sunderland, you know.

[cosmolinguist]

Luckily, being foreign, I don't have the local prejudices either, so I don't mind. :) Probably no worse than being thought American, to many people, anyway.

[jojomojo.livejournal.com]

Apparently its snowing in Michigan. My US peeps are disgruntled.

[cosmolinguist]

Yeah, my teacher friends in Minnesota had another snow day the other day, and a friend in Chicago was excited about the accumulation.

I remember a blizzard on Memorial Day weekend, so snow any time before that doesn't really surprise me. (And there was such a bad snowstorm on my dad's birthday, at the end of April, when I was five or six that I had to be driven home from school in a tow truck).

[benicek.livejournal.com]

Are you from the city or the windswept Minnesotan hinterland?

[cosmolinguist]

Windswept hinterland. My parents have a farm. I even went to college on the windswept Minnesotan hinterland.

[benicek.livejournal.com]

A farm! That does paint a very windswept mental picture for me.