I like the snow, and cold doesn't bother me outside.
Unfortunately, the heat in my apartment is controlled by computer. It shuts off is the temperature rises above zero. Fine in theory, but yesterday's "heat snap" of +3 is not warm enough to be without heat. I was wearing three frickin' layers and gloves as I sat here writing a take-home exam.
The warm snap yesterday was enough to melt all the snow, then last night, the temperature dropped way down to about -25 (+ windchill). It was snowing here this morning with wind gusts hard enough to shake this ancient deathtrap that I'm living in.
I still have Christmas shopping, groceries, and an exam to write (this Thursday), so staying home isn't an option. Apparently the concept of putting sand/gravel/salt on sidewalks never developped in Ottawa; there are two stretches from here to campus that are impassable. We're talking about an inch of perfectly smooth glare ice on frickin' inclines!
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Plus the City of Ottawa has chosen now to tear up a good chunk of sidewalk that I now have to take a five-minute detour around (it's near a bridge that I need to cross, so I can't just walk past but have to come at it from a completely different direction).
Oh, and did I mention that the streets in my little slice of the city (being out of the main thouroughfares) aren't plowed until ll:00 P-frickin'-M?
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