Today the wind whipped hard enough to cause tears and dry out the thin-skinned, outside corners of my eyes. Happy first day of class. :)
To help me feel like a bit of a wimp, the New York Times ran this Arctic Adventure story. Granted, if I were Having An Adventure, weathering the cold would be more tolerable. And what a great lede:
To stave off a breaching 3,000-pound walrus from the cockpit of a small sea kayak, Erik Boomer recommends using the paddle.
“Sort of like a Heisman stiff-arm, hit him in the face and try to feed him the paddle,” he said. “Then start paddling.”The rest of the article reads quite newspaper-y for such an intense story. Of course, this is me being a snob. Of course, it is a newspaper. Of course, someone else can come along and write a book or a script from it. So thanks for breaking it, NYT.
