If you read this blog regularly you will have heard about the BEAUTIFUL weather I have gotten to experience lately, most recently a day so nice we more or less laid out. Could you please tell me then how this happened two and half days later:
Yes, you are seeing correcting, those are inches of snow on the ground. You see, thanks to construction and the constant presence of strange men on my balcony I don't know what the weather is actually like until I go downstairs. Well, Tuesday morning I got ready to go to the gym as usual and went downstairs. What did I see when I got to the door? Snow. Lots and lots of snow. Needless to say I did not go to the gym, but went promptly back upstairs and put my pajamas back on. While I did seek warmth in my apartment for a few extra hours I did still have to go work. Normally I walk, since it is a straight shot and takes less than an hour. I am not going to be trekking through the snow, so I decided it was a good day for the Metro. Well, little did I know that public transportation dislikes the snow as much as I do. I waited 40 minutes for a train thanks to delays and cancellations. I thought I was going to get lucky and that the screen showing upcoming trains was wrong, as one rolled in to the station, but I was wrong. You have no idea how crushing it is to stand on a dank, dark, and crowded train platform and watch an empty train pass through. On the up side, I did make it to work...just a little late. On the plus side, they don't pay me, so I guess I can show up late if I want...right? I mean, what are they going to do? Fire me? Just kidding...
That evening on the Russian Roulette RER return trip I was given the opportunity to jump my first metro turnstile, which of course, is illegal. I made it down the slippery stairs to my metro just as the train was arriving. I put in my ticket like a good public transport user, but the thing wouldn't turn. I tried again, and nothing. I said, well shit, and tried another new ticket...still nothing. At this point the train pulled off. I was less than thrilled and said well, expletive expletive expletive, and jumped the turnstile and waited 20 minutes for the next train. So yeah, it was not my day.
Wednesday morning rolled around and since it was no longer actively snowing and I had a bit of a chip on my shoulder from the metro, I decided to walk. This turned out to be an accident waiting to happen. Have you ever tried to walk on iced over cobblestone? I wouldn't recommend it. I slipped and slided 40% of the walk, trudged through sludge 40% of the walk, and the other 20% I allowed myself to get dripped on from building and trees in order to walk normally on patches of cleared sidewalk. Fortunately by the evening most everything had melted and it was a nice, normal walk home.
The latter part of the week's weather was high-30s low-40s and tonight, as you would imagine, my LEAST favorite kind of weather...rain, hence the reason I am writing a blog entry on a Saturday night.
Speaking of rain...I did have plans this evening, and I went to them. By the time they were done it had started to lightly mist. I'm not made of sugar, so I decided it was okay to walk home. Of course the longer I walked the harder it started to rain. I made it back to the apartment in record time by the time it really started raining. I tried my electronic key thing....NOTHING. I said, you have got to be kidding me. My apartment is in an apartment building with a door on the street with no awning, so standing in the rain I thought, this is a problem. I tried just pushing the door, and fortunately, it opened. I tried the lights...NOTHING. Are you serious? I tried the next door...of course it is locked and only has an electronic key. I was stuck in the pitch black mail corridor of my building. Of course I was also starving. I went back out in to the rain in search of food and shelter. I eventually found both. I ate alone as slowly as possible to kill time and, when I went back to the apartment an hour later, the power was back on. I, however, was soaking wet and not thrilled.
Now I am trying to dry out and find the funny side of the story...
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