In the Agora: Snow and Illness

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December 23, 2004

Snow and Illness

Evansville received nearly 20 inches of snow in one day yesterday, and a couple more inches of snow after midnight. In one day of snowfall, December 2004 became the second-snowiest December on record--and we'll only need about another four inches to catch up with 1917. We will have a white Christmas, and probably a white New Year's and possibly a white President's Day as well.

The coincidence of this snowfall with an assault on my body by some marauding virus has meant that I've watched a lot of daytime television. Considering that I usually watch no television at all, sitting through hours of the Today show has been a revelation. I have questions after my enforced viewing--why does Katie Couric keep changing her hairstyle? doesn't she dress a bit young? why are there so many stories about murderers so early in the morning?--but it was watching a complete episode of Oprah yesterday that really set me to asking questions. Oprah was interviewing Barbara Walters, and all I could think of was that I was watching, essentially, a televised beauty parlor. Oprah and Barbara held hands, the audience cheered and swooned at the smallest revelations, and everybody smiled a lot.

Fortunately, C-SPAN has its Booknotes archives online. If I were trapped here with Oprah and Katie for much longer, I shudder to think what I would do.

Posted by Paul Musgrave at December 23, 2004 11:35 AM

Comments

Massive snowfall is why God created DVD players. We received between 12-24 inches here in the greater Louisville area. Kick back, put in "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and enjoy.

Posted by: GotDesign at December 23, 2004 11:52 AM | permalink

Here I am in the office because working remotely over VPN and a Remote Admin window is painful. Oh and my hot water is still out, but thankfully I have a DVD player, but how many times can one person watch LXG?

Posted by: Foltz at December 23, 2004 12:42 PM | permalink

Are you in town, Paul? You know you should call Tina and I and we should all get together sometime after Christmas (i.e., when the roads are clear).

(Unless, of course, you don't like us. *sniffle*)

Posted by: Nick Blesch at December 23, 2004 03:12 PM | permalink

For the record, I'm in town too :)

Posted by: Joshua Claybourn at December 23, 2004 03:34 PM | permalink

Unless you want to catch Martian Death Flu, we'll have to wait a while...

Posted by: Paul at December 23, 2004 04:20 PM | permalink

Yeah, one minute Couric is crying about kids getting their heads blown off in Iraq, the next she's debating the newest Saks Fifth Avenue fashion with a bunchy of yuppiesh housewives. What is this world coming to?

Posted by: Anonymous at December 23, 2004 11:30 PM | permalink

'booknotes' is truly awesome. i thank heavens for C-SPAN3's encore' booknotes' reairs on a daily basis.

Posted by: Josette at December 24, 2004 10:40 PM | permalink

How are the Evansville HS basketball teams looking this year? Naturally coverage of said events is limited in the Central and South Central Indiana regions for not-so-obvious reasons.

Posted by: Eponymous at December 27, 2004 07:32 PM | permalink

All that damn snow around you guys in the south of the state completely destroyed my planned trip to Florida with my little brother and sister to visit our grandparents. It might be for the best, I don't know if I could have dealt with over 30 hours of two 16 year old twins arguing in my car.

Posted by: C M at December 27, 2004 10:36 PM | permalink