posted by (anonymous) at 10:49am on 2002-12-05
I like things about snow, but I don't like snow. (Are you riffing on this 'cause of my Slashjournal the other day?) I don't think it has anything to do with my supposedly being an adult (wanna fight about it?) and adults' being not supposed to like snow.

I think my dislike of snow has a lot more to do with being an adult in another sense: My parents aren't around to give me car rides places anymore, and now I have to deal with rude bus drivers who make me climb through snowbanks, rude drivers who splash me with slush as I'm walking on the sidewalk or waiting for the bus, incompetent or lazy snowplow operators or snow shovellers who don't scrape the snow and ice off the sidewalk/parking lot/walkway where I have to walk, and all those other hazards of getting around as a non-driver in a world built, as the slogan goes, for drivers. (You just have to worry about driving in snow, which is a whole 'nother kettle of fish.)

Add the ataxia, and I've suddenly got a big problem -- especially considering that I'm not as young and resilient as I used to be, and if I rack hell out of myself because I fall on my face or my dignity on something hard covered with ice, I can't just stay home from school for a few days until I heal up. (Right now, I can't even really afford to stay home from work -- for any reason!) Which makes me sort of paranoid and generally annoyed with Life, The Universe, and Everything, especially considering we're currently under 45+ cm of snow with no end in sight.

That said, I am hoping to go skiing at least once this winter, since I now live in the same city as my ski equipment and the skier most likely to give me a ride to the hill... ;)

S.
 
Not riffing on your posts of 12/2 and 12/3; just reacting to the slight disconnect between the words and the tone + body-language of the reporters on the telly.

When I went back to reread your posts, I did notice that the main thrust seemed to be, as you said here, "all those [...] hazards of getting around [...]". (The "as a non-driver" part ups the ante, but I don't think it really makes it a completely different caldron of seafood. The gist is still inconvenience and danger associated with travel. You're just faced with the fallout from a different group of idiots.)

BTW, I've got a terribly unimportant rant about the shovelling of sidewalks brewing too, which may or may not ever get posted.

And I envy you the skiing opportunities. I've only been twice, when an employer picked up the tab, but that's enough to show me how much fun falling down a mountain with boards on my feet can be. I want to go again. (I wonder how well my fibromyalgia will deal with that particular type and intensity of physical activity.)

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