How Can You Leave Me Standing Alone In A World That's So Cold?
First off, Merry Christmas, everybody!
Secondly, I'm really, REALLY hoping this snow situation is resolved in the next few days. It's been literally a week since I was last at work because of the rotten weather. In addition, getting around has been extremely hazardous - and I've been on-foot for the entire time. Buses are barely running, and those only on north-south routes that don't involve hills, which has meant they've been basically useless to me as a transportation option since I: A.) live on a hill; B.) work on another hill, and; C.) have to travel over hills to get to almost anywhere.
So, I've been schlepping myself out once a day, just to keep the cabin fever at bay, which is of course excellent exercise, sort of like doing a session on nature's eliptical trainer, so no complaints there. But, now that the snow is actually starting to melt even walking is a becoming problem due to the slippery-slidey, slushy mess left in the wake of 10+ inches of snowfall over the past eight or nine days.
I've been scouring the online transit maps trying to figure out if there's any way I can get from my house to my friends' just a few miles to the north, but without the east-west connections it's simply impossible without either walking, or, taking a cab in desperation, which may become an option, for no other reason than I've got a bunch of food to schlep along with me, and lugging it three and a-half miles through cold rain and over melting snow the consistency of cold, wet mucus just doesn't sound all that appealing to me for some reason.
Oh well, could be worse; could be - um, oh. It's snowing. Again.
Nevermind.
Anyway, stay warm, stay dry, and enjoy the day. That's what I'm going to try to do.
Good News #1: I made it to my office this morning. Took me nearly two hours, between the long wait for buses, the elongated serpentine snow-routes, and the fact that some buses just never showed up at all. So, I ended up walking the last two miles, roughly from the University of Washington to my office 40th & Aurora, because none of the east-west routes on 40th were running due to icy hills.
Bad News #1: Once there, I couldn't actually get into my office, because neither of my co-workers were there, nor was the building maintenance staff, and I haven't seen my set of keys since Wednesday.
Good News #2: On a hunch I went around to the walkway between our building and the condos next door, and took a peek through my ground-floor window. Sure enough, the keys were sitting on my desk where I'd accidentally left them Wednesday afternoon. So, at least I know they didn't fall out of my pocket on a Metro bus, which essentially would have meant never seeing them again.
Bad News #2: Of course, I still couldn't retrieve said keys (see: Bad News #1 above).
So, if "April showers bring May flowers", then what do March snowstorms bring? And does a snowstorm, three days before the end of the month constitute "March, going out like a lion"?
Wouldn't it be more like "going out like a snow-shoe hare"?
