March 31st Snowstorm
Apr. 7th, 2008 08:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
abracanabraI was having a not-good day at work, as is the nature of the day job. I hurried out the door and into the teeth of a snowstorm. Because I wasn't expecting the cold and wind, I didn't have my big warm scarf. Because I wasn't expecting wet, slushy snow, I didn't have an umbrella. I was delayed a few minutes by the managers, and so when I got outside and stood at the bus stop and waited...and waited...and waited, it eventually dawned on me that I'd missed my bus.
I did not want to wait a half hour for the next one, and I really didn't want to go back inside, so I started walking to downtown. Normally, this is a ten minute walk. Since I'm still moving slowly and recovering from knee surgery, it took about twice that amount of time.
It probably was a bad idea for me to walk to downtown. While recovering from knee surgery. In snowy slush that was icing down the sidewalks. But it felt wonderful to get out and wander and take photographs. It pacified the undomesticated part of me that had been pacing up and down in frustration inside of me for a very long time. I felt more essentially myself than I had in months.
I did not want to wait a half hour for the next one, and I really didn't want to go back inside, so I started walking to downtown. Normally, this is a ten minute walk. Since I'm still moving slowly and recovering from knee surgery, it took about twice that amount of time.
It probably was a bad idea for me to walk to downtown. While recovering from knee surgery. In snowy slush that was icing down the sidewalks. But it felt wonderful to get out and wander and take photographs. It pacified the undomesticated part of me that had been pacing up and down in frustration inside of me for a very long time. I felt more essentially myself than I had in months.