My Nose Is Freezing
Seriously, my nose is really cold. I've got the rest of me sorted out with hat, gloves, scarves etc. but my nose is fatally unprotected. Balaclavas are obviously a no-go. I think my nose is going to get frostbite and drop off. No one will love me if I have no nose. Furthermore I will forever be a punchline in the worst joke ever: "Susie's got no nose!" "How does she smell?" "Terrible!" Can you imagine the humiliation? How am I going to face life sans nose?
My frostbite-related paranoia aside, i'm still having a good time in Vancouver. The powder snow is still here, so everything looks terribly picturesque. Yesterday we had a look around Stanley Park, a city park near the shore, so surrounded by a sea wall. I get the impression it's a beloved city treasure, which sucks because it was treated very badly by the wind storm earlier this week. We couldn't even get far in the park because the path was blocked by fallen trees. Someone told me that 300 trees were blown down, someone else told me 3000 trees were blown down. I don't know which number is true- apparently 3000- but it's pretty dreadful either way.
Also yesterday we checked out the West End, where half the stores were closed for winter, and had a bit of a reccy around UBC, the University of British Columbia. UBC is huuuuuge, it's like a town unto itself. Endless buildings and stores and heavy traffic, and it's surrounded by forest, cuttting it off from Vancouver. It was an interesting contrast with Reed: call UBC a town and Reed a village. I prefer the village myself. (Insert platitude about local values and close knit community spirit.) Today we ate a lot of cake, and tonight we're heading to an improv show out on Granville Island.
My frostbite-related paranoia aside, i'm still having a good time in Vancouver. The powder snow is still here, so everything looks terribly picturesque. Yesterday we had a look around Stanley Park, a city park near the shore, so surrounded by a sea wall. I get the impression it's a beloved city treasure, which sucks because it was treated very badly by the wind storm earlier this week. We couldn't even get far in the park because the path was blocked by fallen trees. Someone told me that 300 trees were blown down, someone else told me 3000 trees were blown down. I don't know which number is true- apparently 3000- but it's pretty dreadful either way.
Also yesterday we checked out the West End, where half the stores were closed for winter, and had a bit of a reccy around UBC, the University of British Columbia. UBC is huuuuuge, it's like a town unto itself. Endless buildings and stores and heavy traffic, and it's surrounded by forest, cuttting it off from Vancouver. It was an interesting contrast with Reed: call UBC a town and Reed a village. I prefer the village myself. (Insert platitude about local values and close knit community spirit.) Today we ate a lot of cake, and tonight we're heading to an improv show out on Granville Island.
posted by susie r at 6:43 PM
4 Comments:
Mmmm... cake...
I hope your nose doesn't fall off; I reckon it suits you. Plus, no nose would mean no sense of smell, so you'd probably chose really bad antiperspirant or wear hideous perfume in a wild moment, or perhaps you'd feel so bad that you'd cut little slits into your noseless area and have a Voldemort-style nose substitute.
I have clearly thought about this too much.
I had to post to this blog, because your really not going to believe me... its just so wierd that you happen to be talking about you with no nose, as i can really picture it... i did a shift in a hospital yesterday, and i actually had a patient with no nose! im not kidding you, it may have been lost due to frost bite, i don't know... put there is hope, he had a prosthetic nose attached to his glasses and as they slipped down his face you could see an actual hole where his nose used to be (and you could see the whole hole when he had his glasses off - there was actually 2 holes, one for each nostril!) it was a kind of wierd, but there hope for you susie!
Oh my god Leah, you have the best revolting stories ever!! I can't believe this is actually true. It certainly adds perspective to my vague moaning.
I know!
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