the golden compass

I absolutely loved this trilogy growing up. I first read The Golden Compass in middle school when it came out and after that I anxiously awaited each book's release. In the books, there are daemons, which are like companions, a separate being attached to the soul of the person and which takes on different animal shapes before settling on a permanent shape. I always wondered what form my daemon would take, a snow leopard?, an owl?, a tiger? I no longer have to wonder.

This is my daemon, but I might not have answered the questionnaire accurately. That is where you come in, you can visit my daemon page, alter the answers and give my daemon his true shape.

first snow storm

actually the forecaster called it a mixed winter storm, which I gathered means that we will have all sorts of freezing precipitation. For now, its a blizzard, okay, maybe I don't know what that word really means, but it is snowing a ton out there right now. I check the weather religiously and there is a warning that the freezing rain that is supposedly coming tonight might cut off our electricity (you would think Chicago would have precautions to prevent this), so I went out today to get batteries for my flashlight. It was flurrying when I was in the store, but 5 minutes later, when I came back out, the entire ground was covered and the snow was coming down and sideways, and, I swear, up. I got home and took a few pictures from my windows. Here you go: