Life in a snowy zone...

[fajrdrako]

Groundhog Day. A movie - a good one - that sparked a slew of excellent copies, and some fine fanfic. Making déjà vu a literary genre.

Funny thing is, I keep forgetting from year to year what it is that the groundhog is actually supposed to do, or why. See his shadow? Predict spring? Is this a joke, or a superstition? I never really get my brain around it. Well, it makes about as much sense as most long-term weather reports.

This was a snowy day in Ottawa. Snow, snow, and more snow. We haven't had as much as usual this year, maybe because the rest of the world is covering the universal snow quota. It was pretty, but hard to get around - several of my plans were cancelled because people didn't want to go out.

Me, I went out. I might have skipped getting my comics today, except I knew it was the day Daken: Dark Wolverine #5 comes out. So I went to the Silver Snail, and bought comics, and walked home in the show. I picked up my dry cleaning and bought food to make chili for supper, and bird seed because the supply for the Little Feathered Guys was getting low. Then I went out again, to deliver a job application. It was all very aerobic.

I did a Tarot reading with the Barbara Walker deck. I read her Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets when it first came out, and wasn't very impressed - there was some interesting material there, but it was fairly superficial, and not all of it well-researched. Bad scholarship, bad feminism.

I didn't like her Tarot deck for several reasons. For one thing, it's ugly. For another, she gives identities to cards that aren't traditionally given names - for instance, the Queen of Swords is a rather horrific drawing of Kali, and the King of Pentacles is Baal. There are some nice touches - the brim of the Magician's hat is the infinity sign in red and black, for instance, and the Tower is called "The House of God". But really, I'd rather not read with this deck ever again.