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Image: snow shovel in snow, trying to show off how many inches we got by 7am when it was still snowing. 

I have no idea how many inches actually fell in Saint Paul, but it must have been over 4 inches because Saint Paul declared a snow emergency! Which means that I work tomorrow tagging cars. (Others are working all night tonight, but I am just not enough of a night owl that I could survive a shift from 8 pm to 6:00 am.) What's funny is that due to how pay periods work, I actually haven't yet got paid for the work I did in February (though I do expect a paycheck by this Friday.)

Today is actually reading Wednesday, (apparently NOT yesterday). Because I realized I hadn't read anything, I quick read a manga last night called Ask Affection by Yoichi Manika. It's actually almost a plot-what-plot, except I find that I'm still kind of trying parse out how the relationship even worked. I haven't yet written my review, even, because like, this one guy is complaining at his regular gay bar that all the guys that he hooks up with are only after him for his pretty face (and naturally hot body.) The bar's "mama," a trans woman, has heard a rumor that an AV (adult video, so what we would call a "porn star") has been seen sniffing around and she thinks he should try to hit that. Our hero looks at the guy in question, decides, I guess because the movie he's in is straight, that there's no chance and anyway, wouldn't this just be more of the same? That last thought isn't a bad one, but the problem is that through out the whole rest of the manga, our hero never seems to parse that a sex worker would be working as a straight porn star and actually be gay. EVEN when they do hook up and said porn star keeps reassuring our hero that he's actually interested in a boyfriend. Yet, our hero moves in? And continues to not believe that he's being courted? That's the part where I start going ??? and, probably, I am thinking WAY TOO hard about what is essentially smut.

Such is my nature, I guess.