Today, I'm having my first legit snow day. Once, when I was a wee lass, we got to leave school early due to a blizzard, but never have I ever had a legitimate snow day. This excites me, but, at the same time, I'm bored as hell...
Three things I'm going to talk about today.
1] In regard to the snowpocalypse that we will be having these next few days, I will be documenting the experience with my iphone camera. I've been looking out the window, and, so far, it doesn't look as bad as people are making it out to be. Yes, there's a lot of snow, but, c'mon. I'm from Chicago. This would have been a normal day. Ain't no days off of school in this. However, back home, there's word of a snow day tomorrow. So I'm assuming this means things will get worse.. So, from my window, I will be watching the upcoming monstrosity and hoping to not have to go outside and get blown to the land of Oz.
2] Today is the first day of February. This means a) the first day of Black History Month b) Langston Hughes's birthday. In honor of BHM, I will be posting something black history related every day of February. It'll just be a quick fact thing of some sort on an important African American person in history.
Also, Langston Hughes was one hell of a poet. He's awesome in any month. Here's one of his poems, Juke Box Love Song . I thought it was pretty nice. Other Hughes poems can be found all over the internet, so, if you enjoy poetry, check his out. It's nice.
Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri on February 1, 1902 as James Langston Hughes. He attended high school in Ohio and went to Columbia University under an agreement with his father that he would go to pursue an engineering degree. However, Hughes dropped out of school to pursue a writing career. His first published poem, as well as one of his most popular poems, was The Negro Speaks of Rivers . Langston Hughes died of cancer on May 22, 1967. His residence at 20 East 127th Street in Harlem, New York has been given landmark status by the New York City Preservation Commission. His block of East 127th Street was renamed "Langston Hughes Place".
[thanks famouspoetsandpoems.com!]
3] In case you don't read The Frisky [check my Other Good Reads section to the right], here's a new article that caught my eye today. In case you don't feel like switching pages or reading or whatever, here's the video for the product they talk about in the article...
....what...the....hell?
Lol, I wonder if dudes actually enjoy this thing...
Ta ta for now, y'all.
♥
Word of the Day: ambisinister [am-bee-SIN-uh-stuhr] adjective: clumsy or unskillful with both hands.
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