Last night it snowed somewhere between 12 and 14 inches — the whole town seemed concerned about the impending “snowpocalypse,” “snowmaggedon,” or in lolz, “snowMGz.” And it’s gorgeous out. I should have taken some pictures today during daylight, but Dana’s got some great ones.
I walked to a cafe today to eat an afternoon lunch and read Bolter and Grusin’s Remediation: Understanding New Media. Good book, perhaps more on that later. What I didn’t get is why half the sidewalks, by mid-afternoon, weren’t cleared. These weren’t residential sidewalks. These were sidewalks in front of those every-single-one-looks-the-same strip malls that litter this part of town (the ones with only 3 businesses in each, but I could never tell you what businesses they are because they all look nondescript). So I spent half my sojourn walking on the roads. But it was nice.
Now I’m back at home, but I have this awful lack of discipline when it comes to reading at home—and since I barely read last night while snowed in, I should get some more done today. My car is under a foot of snow, and though I could probably get it out fairly quickly, I feel that this is a task for daylight. So I’m going to don my backpack and walk out again. Who knew that on the snowiest day of the year, I’d walk more than I did in many sunny summer days?
