Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

From lothie:

"You know what it takes to be happy? Living like a little child does. That's all there is. I don't mean being irresponsible, of course -- I mean taking delight in everything, and trusting, and playing. I mean laughing when you're happy, and crying when you're sad, and always being willing to be happy again at a moment's notice."

I should be asleep but I'm not. I thought I was about to fall asleep six hours ago, but I didn't. I finally broke down and cooked up a plate of eggs & potatoes to make use of the tryptophan+carbs effect. Going to head back to bed Real Soon Now.

I knew snow was coming soonish, but hadn't looked out the window for a couple of hours ... then I glanced at the window and noticed that the sky was the colour of streetlights and nearly as bright, and sure enough that meant it was snowing. And there was already an inch on the fire escape next door by then. Waited for the 11 o'clock news and they said the magic words, "snow emergency", in the first three minutes, so I put on some clothes and went to move the car off of Lombard St.

Since then, plows have gone up Fulton Ave. at least three times, but Lombard looks like it maybe got one swipe at the very start of the storm and is now pretty smoothly blanketed. Ahh, but if I didn't move my car, then they would decide to get around to Lombard St. after all, and give me a ticket I can't afford. Since I moved my car, they're not going to bother any of the cars still parked there. (Worse yet, I betcha that even if a snow emergency had not been declared, they'd write me a ticket for not obeying the street cleaning parking restrictions if I left my car there, even though we all know they're not going to have street-sweeping machines out there this day.

Sure is pretty, in any case. Coming down impressively, illuminated in the air as it falls past the streetlight.