Snotsicle!

This is my nose. I have no complaints. The lines are quite true to form. The small amount of nosehairs present within each nostril are perfectly spaced to capture any airborne particles that might find their way towards my lungs, and and are neither too wide nor too narrow according to western ideals of how a nose should be structured. However, now that I am living in an arctic environment and spend much of my day standing in the cold Sewardian winds, I find this nose is rather ill equipped for the bitter air that rushes up each nostril. As a result, my body is facing a brand new challenge never encountered in the temperate wilderness of the Pacific Northwest: SNOTSICLES! Siberia houses a certain nose-centric animal, the Saiga, pictured below:

If you look at the face of this animal, you will note the rather long, snout shaped nose. This is the perfect arctic nose: It's long and wide, which allows the animal to moisturize and heat the air before it reaches the lungs. I, however, do not have this most amazing nose structure. Rather, my body compensates by making an excess of snot, which supposedly helps to warm and moisturize the air in a short period of time before it reaches my lungs. This overabundance of snot begins to drip down my face. The cold, windy weather immediately freezes this snot, and consequently, I have strings of frozen mucus hanging from an otherwise quite acceptable nose. I now play a game with myself on these cold and otherwise uneventful days: If I don't wipe the snotsicle away, and keep producing snot, I can make gigantic snotsicles! The longest one, to date, has gone about 1/2 inch beyond my chin until I couldn't stand the sight any longer. The jiggling of a snotsicle from the tip of your nose is a rather interesting sensation, as well, and one that can only be tolerated for short amounts of time. I encourage any who find themselves in these cold extremes of weather to attempt the snotsicle game. What can your nose produce today??