Mar. 12 – Canada Has Come To Visit

Just yesterday, it was très warm and everything was melting. Don’t mine the très – I’ve been reading the ultra-trashy Bergdorf Blondes book. It’s annoying, yet entertaining at the same time. Anyways, you have to be really careful when you’re walking down the stairs. Most of the stairways have trees on either side and they grow over the stairs as well. When the snow on the boughs gets really heavy as it melts, a huge chunk of it will just fall through and land with a loud thud on the pavement, if it doesn’t hit a pedestrian first. It happened just 3 steps in front of me as I was walking yesterday. I think being hit by something like that could very well knock you down. Now I’m really careful and I always look above and ahead of me to make sure there’s no clumps of snow waiting to take out the people below them.

Now, it’s a full-fledged Canadian winter storm outside my window. Last night and today were the first times that it has been windy here ever since I arrived. You know, that type of wind where it gusts around the house and howls to let you know that it’s there. Now, add snow. My poor flatmate is probably walking back from the grocery store right now.

Tonight, I will have spaghetti in olive oil with asparagus and walnuts. And, on the side, fresh bread to be dipped in olive oil. I really have to get rid of all that asparagus. I’ve been having it for 3 days in a row now. Blegh.