Journal Interrobang's Journal: A Dark Cold Weekend
I have had better weekends. I had a whole bunch of things that I wanted to get done (laundry, housecleaning, the usual boring domestic crap), and some things I wanted to do (pronunciation practice)...and life, the universe and everything had other plans.
I don't know about where you're from, but right now there's a huge snowstorm parked over London that's been here for the last three days. It started to flake slightly on Friday night as I was on my way home. By Saturday, the weather was terrible (and accumulating at a rate of cm/hr), and on Sunday there was about one major break in the weather -- fortunately when I decided to haul my ass out of bed and go for an early grocery run. Unfortunately, my area's been plagued with power outages (looks like only in the four blocks or so around the Queens Ave./Adelaide St. intersection at which I live*), including one that lasted from 5:30-9:30 PM yesterday.
Waspish Aside: I don't remember the power going out with one little snowstorm (no high winds even) twice in a weekend before the profit motive took over Ontario Hydro...then again, I could just live in an area with crappy wires.
So I got half my kitchen floor washed, my dinner half-cooked (chicken noodle soup still in the "stock creation" stage), and my bathroom half-cleaned. Sigh... It was also cold, because when the power goes off, the forced air stops forcing air and I have to rely on the heat rising instead, which is less efficient -- and colder!!
Meanwhile, the snow keeps piling up. I had to fight my way in to work today (because the dumb subcontractor didn't bother to shovel the walkway from the sidewalk -- again!!) through snowdrifts up to my knees. Not very pedestrian-friendly (as many things in London), nor very handicap-friendly. (Where's a reasonable hand-drawn facsimile of the ADA when you need one?!) All of which makes me annoyed, and makes me think wistfully of moving somewhere where, if you say, "I hate snow," they say, "Oh, yeah, I know what snow is. I saw it on TV. What's so bad about snow?"
* Which would be the area bounded in a square by Dundas St. on the south, William St. on the west, Lorne Ave. on the north, and Elizabeth St. on the east...not that that's likely to make any sense to you...
I don't know about where you're from, but right now there's a huge snowstorm parked over London that's been here for the last three days. It started to flake slightly on Friday night as I was on my way home. By Saturday, the weather was terrible (and accumulating at a rate of cm/hr), and on Sunday there was about one major break in the weather -- fortunately when I decided to haul my ass out of bed and go for an early grocery run. Unfortunately, my area's been plagued with power outages (looks like only in the four blocks or so around the Queens Ave./Adelaide St. intersection at which I live*), including one that lasted from 5:30-9:30 PM yesterday.
Waspish Aside: I don't remember the power going out with one little snowstorm (no high winds even) twice in a weekend before the profit motive took over Ontario Hydro...then again, I could just live in an area with crappy wires.
So I got half my kitchen floor washed, my dinner half-cooked (chicken noodle soup still in the "stock creation" stage), and my bathroom half-cleaned. Sigh... It was also cold, because when the power goes off, the forced air stops forcing air and I have to rely on the heat rising instead, which is less efficient -- and colder!!
Meanwhile, the snow keeps piling up. I had to fight my way in to work today (because the dumb subcontractor didn't bother to shovel the walkway from the sidewalk -- again!!) through snowdrifts up to my knees. Not very pedestrian-friendly (as many things in London), nor very handicap-friendly. (Where's a reasonable hand-drawn facsimile of the ADA when you need one?!) All of which makes me annoyed, and makes me think wistfully of moving somewhere where, if you say, "I hate snow," they say, "Oh, yeah, I know what snow is. I saw it on TV. What's so bad about snow?"
* Which would be the area bounded in a square by Dundas St. on the south, William St. on the west, Lorne Ave. on the north, and Elizabeth St. on the east...not that that's likely to make any sense to you...
