Let it snow?
No! I hate the stuff! Sure, it’s pretty for, oh, five minutes when it’s coming down all soft and feathery and dainty like and “covers the earth in a soft blanket” and blah blah blah. But let’s get real here! In a few days, check out that pile of brown crap by the side of the road, all slushy and nasty like, or that enevitable snow job in the mall parking lot that won’t disappear ’til April. Pretty. Ugly. I. Say.
I must have no good snow childhood memories. Instead, most of my thoughts on snow revolve around smashing my parents’ Nissan Maxima into a chain link fence and russian olive tree at the bottom of a steep hill one slickery November morning. Or driving home after a movie a few weeks ago, south on 35W, creeping along at 30 mph, hoping to God I wouldn’t follow the two cars ahead of me into the ditch.
This weekend Chicago was pummeled. Thirteen plus inches at Midway, in just 12 hours! In town for a conference this past weekend, we ventured out on Michigan avenue. They closed down the Magnificent Mile early Monday night … we were left to find the one cab in the Windy City willing and able to take us back, dejected, to our hotel.
Just think how we’ll all feel come mid-January. Windchill: 40 below. The snow actually squeaks beneath your shoes. Worse than fingernails down a chalkboard.
I swear, it’s not the cold, it’s not the lack of sun that give me the winter doldrums. It’s the damned snow! Enough!
I returned from the Windy City last night. Found out that Jason’s been offered a fabulous position at KPLU in Seattle, where it never snows. Another possible offer from NPR in the near future? Congratulations, Jason! Also in Chicago: admired Sue at the Field Museum, and am in total awe over the Art Institute’s paperweight collection. I finally made it to the top of the Sears Tower, and Jerry Springer walked by me while dining at The Cheesecake Factory.
I’ve been disappointed that Christine at maganda.org stopped doing daily entries at the “girl” section of her site. But she delivered a gem today! Be sure to check out “today” for more beautiful writing, not to mention gorgeous imagery. The link isn’t on her home page yet, so bookmark it now.
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