a post about the weather. i feel so diminished.

winter is a horrible and cruel place.

i'm someone who likes to walk. i also like to take my time. not in a lazy way, but in an appreciative way. sometimes a methodical way.

i started my new (hopefully soon-to-be) awesome job yesterday. my office is little, but it's mine. the lights are shitty, but i'll get a lamp. i wake up at 6:30am, out the door an hour later, arrive for a little before 9am, and get home at 7:30pm. the bus...an hour each way. i read on the bus, i finish books quickly. this suits me just fine....AS LONG AS THE WEATHER IS TOLERABLE $*_$@*&!)&##^

yesterday and today, Ottawa suffered MINUS FUCKING 30 WEATHER. before you go on about how we have worse than that, and that i should be used to it by now, let me inform you that i, perhaps unlike you, am a human being. human beings are not and should not be made for this weather. vanity aside (skin getting rough, rosacea leaving its marks, capillary veins bursting), i don't appreciate starting my day with the waiting at the bus stop and the 15 minute walk from the station to work freezing my legs til they burn, snots flying everywhere if i don't hold a kleenex to my nose, and...hahah, the weeklong headache from a mere 5 minutes of the wind pounding my forehead (which is actually wearing a winter hat). i'm fucked off and i've had it.

i know that once spring comes around, it'll be nice to take my time to and from work, stopping in shops, getting bubble tea, or whatever. but i'm fucking miserable and feel completely trapped.
so.
i decree this to be my last winter here, NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS.
Canadians reading this (anyone? anyone?) will remember our middle-school history classes, where we learned about how during WW1, they offered ten acres of land to any European family willing to move to Canada to populate this ridiculous large landmass....a land mostly covered with tundra and made of icicle sticks. THEY HAD TO BRIBE PEOPLE TO LIVE HERE. fucking suckers fell for it, and are still not done sorting it out.

remember "The Saint"? that horrible Val Kilmer spy movie, where they were fighting over the secret to "cold fusion"? THAT MOVIE WAS MADE LIKE 15 YEARS AGO, WHY HASN'T THAT TECHNOLOGY BEEN DEVELOPED IN REAL LIFE?

i don't want to spend my lunchtime in the office kitchen with the others. i wanna be outside :(
banish winter.
join the resistance.
i'll start with a petition.