Oooookay, let’s give this one more shot…

I was going to throw up my hands and write off the entire poll experience as a bad job…but have managed to find a decently reputable online-survey host and can’t quite resist the notion of trying again. So I’ve removed the possibly-glitchy LJ poll from the entry below and have created a brand-new one, using the same questions. This one is open to everybody, at the following link:

http://www.online-survey.net/survey.aspx?surveyid=741

Please and thanks for participating. (Look at it this way: The sooner I get this out of my system, the sooner we get back to actual content.)

It’s beginning to look a lot like a poll…

–Er…owing to tech difficulties with the poll that was originally in this entry – as detailed in the next entry up – the poll in question is currently located in the next entry past that. Would it be possible to blame this whole thing on cabin fever, do you think?

The muse works in strange ways. Merely walking home from the subway this evening, for instance, I was moved to present Winter in Southern Ontario, a drama in one act:

Snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow freezing rain snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow rain snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow…

In case it isn’t absolutely clear by now, this piece expresses the following deep and resonant theme: I should not be wiping frozen ice crystals off my eyebrows in frelling MARCH, people!

December, yes, I can see that. What is falling out there now – ie., March – is by family tradition ‘Charlie Brown snow’, a reference to the easily-animated fat little round flakes from the Christmas special…which, do I even have to point out, is all-December, all the time. Not once is March even mentioned, not even in passing. It is times like these that make me think we need a new special: You Lied to Me, Charlie Brown.

Sure, you laugh and tell me to relax and enjoy the cozy time indoors. Well, I have news for you, cupcake: more time indoors @ Shoe Central means more time to spend on this blog. Seeing as how we’re ten days into the reinvention project and the only thing we’ve established so far is  that I need serious help in the Person I Most Want to Be Cooped Up With For a Long Time dept…