Again with the snow, plus other insults to my person

[scarlettina]

Falling again. Spanky and Merlin are both sitting by the balcony door, watching. Outside, I hear the scrape of a snow shovel on sidewalk.

I miss other people. I miss my friends. I was miserably ill last year through the holidays and missed all the parties; I was hoping to make it up this year. Unless a miracle happens, this year will be a repeat. I hate this.

Also? I was awakened at 7:30 by a call from a recruiter on the east coast with an Indian accent so thick I could barely understand her. She called both my landline and my cell--twice. I missed the calls but got the voicemail. It was urgent-urgent-urgent. She was from an agency I've never heard of before. And all I could think was that there's no job so urgent that it couldn't wait until a decent hour. And then, to add insult to injury, I walked into the bathroom to discover cat sick all over the floor.

Crab crab crab. I'm going to go have breakfast now.

ETA: Seattle Post-Intelligencer columnist Joel Connelly tells it like it is. I wrote my angry letter to the mayor yesterday, but I may write another one today, just to let off some steam. And a report in the PI discusses the risks vs benefits of salting roads. Welcome to Seattle, folks! Everything is a hand-wringing, angst-ridden discussion. ::sigh::

Comments

[dianora2.livejournal.com]

Isn't it really rare for Seattle to be experiencing snow like this? So, they can't use the rock salt, like, ONCE EVERY TEN YEARS? Good grief.

[sinthrex.livejournal.com]

It is rare.

Which means that regardless of a willingness to use it or not, they:

1) don't have it around

2) don't have the equipment for spreading it even if they had it

3) are unlikely to invest in stockpiling such for something that happens so rarely

4) are running a massive deficit and by the time the economy clears up to the point where they could make the investment, this will be long forgotten.

[varina8.livejournal.com]

Good points, especially #3.