good day! no ak.
And i fucking love the snow, let me tell you guys. Lindsey and I took a snow day yesterday, cos she's working at 7 Oaks Elementary now and they were cancelled, and i have a hard time working when I know school is cancelled. It's still the kid in me. So i went into work late, then told bryce that i had to take the morning off anyway to go play in the snow, and then i did.
You know what guys?: If you remember a time when it snowed heavier than it is now, and school was cancelled, keep it to yourself. I hate hearing the phrase, "2-3 inches? It snowed 2-3 inches and they cancelled school? I rememember when it had to snow a foot before they cancelled!"
There is no need for any of us to know that, it's a weird competition with the present day and some vaguely remembered past, or some super snow state you grew up in. It snowed, celebrate that, school's should be closed with only a quarter inch of snow. No one wants their day dampered with the knowledge that somewhere, sometime, it's snowing even more.
So yeah, Linz and i had snowball fights and built a snowman and took a snowwalk and all that stuff, then i came into work at 2. It was a good day.
And, let me tell you, I love Exxxtreme weather like this, when it's really snowy, or really hot, or really rainy. Because it brings everyone together. Strangers on the street will tell you, "it's a scorcher ain't it?" and you'll say, "yes it is." And there'll be that connection. Any other day, both of you will just find a spot on the sidewalk to stare at so you won't have to make eye contact.
Today on the bus was something special, and i don't know if it was cos of the snow, or just that it's an earlier bus than i usually take, a special magic bus.
But it was crowded, mostly with state employees, including a woman across from me with a fancy red trenchcoat and a bob haircut. Women with fancy warm coatas and bobs make me feel like i'm in Washington truly. When i first moved here, my knowledge of Washingtonians were the anchors on the news, and that's how they looked. Now they are like the Washingtonian mold in my weird mind.
In the back was this young, 17 year old guy, really strong and intense listening to his ipod and staring ahead, unsmiling. He had the white t-shirt and the baggy jeans and the short gelled haircut of an angry white youth.
And to the right of me were two guys talking, one guy was really sloppy and overweight, the type of body shape you get from not leaving home for 24 years. He had the same type of outfit as he probably wore when he was eight, only larger. He was talking to a young professional state employee, in a full three piece suit and power tie, and a clean cut haircut, hair beyond just well washed and combed, where it actually looked carved out of blonde stone.
the sloppy guy was showing him DS games and listing off the glitches, and theh young professional was nodding politely and laughing at the tiny jokes thhe sloppy guy made. I thought it was a case of forced conversation on the bus, when someone just sits down next to you and starts talking. But then the sloppy guy pulled out this fantasy game and the state man goes, "OOOOH!" and grabs at the game like a kid grabbing an out of reach present.
So he started looking at the back of the box and the sloppy guy told hima bout it and how he would wait until the expansion dropped down to 9 dollars and te state guy laughed and said, "no kidding". and I realized they made friends on the morning bus!
We stopped at 11th and Capitol and all the state employees got off, including our young professional. Just then the angry youth took off his headphones and hollered, "look at the mountains!" Everyone looked at the mountains through the state buildings, pink and big and clear.
"Best part of the morning," he continued, "when the mountains are clear."
