Snow Day!

Finally, we're covered in a blanket of fluffy, white snow!! I awoke this morning to giant flakes blowing past my window and a very excited Sweetpotato stuffing the dog into a snow jacket. New York really is beautiful in the snow, as you can see. (Sweetpotato took this shot for me, isn't he just the most precious thing ever;-)
Outside was still relatively undisturbed and for a moment, my crowded, taxi-covered world was peaceful and calm.

But only for a moment.

You know, where I come from, just an inch of snow is a viable, nay, super legitament reason to close EVERYTHING. I mean, it would flurry and parents would rush to get their kids from school, lest a flake turn to ice!

But not up here, no, it's business as usual. And Midtown is not nearly the pretty snow-blanketed scene of my waking. Oh hell no, it's a gray slugdy version, where puddles cover every curb and each step sinks your already disgusting boots into 6 inches of melted mush. Sidewalks are dangerously slick after hundreds of shoes have stomped down the snow as people force themselves out of bed and into the cold, gray day.

Now, I don't see any reason in the world that I should have to venture out in this, I mean I could get sick or slip and fall, and then who would answer your phones. To be sure there's no copier crisis in the world worth the risk of pneumonia! I think it's reckless endangerment to require attendance in inclement weather.

Now here I sit, wasting perfectly good snowman-building hours making sure the fax machine doesn't fritz and the water cooler maintains acceptable levels. So much for snow days...slush is all I get!