Cabin Fever

Today, at last, we have snow.

We've actually had snow on or just before Christmas the last 4 years I've been living here, so things are a little late this season, and I was beginning to fear that this whole 'global warming' business was going to spoil the party this time, but.....

Today, it began snowing in the wee small hours. And it hasn't really stopped. Unfortunately, it is not pretty snow. It is thin and wet and feeble. It built up to a depth of about one inch well before dawn, but doesn't seem to have added to that since then (although it is plenty cold enough for it to stick - around 8º F below freezing, according to Weather Underground). But it is very persistent. It has been falling, falling, falling, thinly, wetly, feebly for the 10 hrs that I have been up today, and it is showing no signs of ever letting up. It seems to have a faint beige hue to it - as if it is already sullied with dust and other pollutants before it even hits the ground. And the sky is opaque: it is still as gloomy in the middle of the afternoon as it was just post-dawn. Visibility is down to a few hundred yards.

I have scarcely set foot outside my apartment for the last three days as it is. Today was to be an active and sociable day..... but the will-power deserts me. Today now threatens instead to be another day of subsisting on nuts and satsumas and watching pirated DVDs of films I would never pay to see in a cinema.