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Fairfax, Ohio     January 24, 2014     10:46 am–10:53 am     insanely cold     7 °F     long-sleeved shirt, leggings, fleece-lined jeans, fleece jacket, fleece pullover, fleece scarf, snow pants, winter coat, two pair wool socks (one fuzzy, one ragg), snow boots, thin gloves inside ski gloves, fleece-lined wool hat with earflaps     sat directly on snow     birds talking, fighting, tweeting, calling     dull traffic     fingers got cold, red, and hurt despite thick, clumsy gloves     ink froze on paper before it soaked in—thawed later inside, soaked in, and dried     frozen ink chunks scampered off reed pen and scattered across paper—blew them off before coming inside     glasses fogged up