Apocalyptic Snow

As some of you may have noticed, there was a little snow here on Tuesday. Kirkwood was closed from 1pm Tuesday until Thursday morning. I'll let you know about some of the fun involved the past few days.

Wednesday afternoon, they were plowing our parking lot, and I noticed that a truck was parked behind my roommate's car. My roommate was not happy about it, and went out to dig his car out of the snow--and shovel some of it onto the truck. The owner came out while this was going on--with three of his friends. He was not happy, because he had been told by the landlord to park there. That's another thing on the list of why we'll never rent from this company again--no key for the first week, no blinds for two months, no response to complaints about the blinds (including phone calls, emails, and visits in person), the washer breaking down 3 (or is it 4? I lost count) times since we've moved in, and now this.

Yesterday after class, I decided to go to my bank (I had to deposit my student loan money). I then wanted to go to the post office (I needed to mail a request for a transcript for admission to the U of I). The bank wasn't a problem--other than it's on Highway 1, near the Veritas offices, at the top of a big hill--but both post offices I went to were closed--one closed 15 minutes after I got there. When I was getting close to home--after 2 hours on my feet, with a lot of pushing my way through snow up to my knees--it no longer felt like I was walking. It felt like I was falling forward, and had to keep moving my feet to avoid face-planting on the cold, cold concrete--from around the North Market Park until the apartment. If you want, here's the Google maps view of the route I took. In all, it took about 2 and a half hours from the end of my last class until I got home.

Today I tried going to the post office--the second one on the Google maps view (D on the map)--and found out it is only open from 11:30 to 4:30. I went to the mall, bought a few things at CVS, and would have hung out at the mall until 11:30 if my iPod had gotten a good wireless signal. That wasn't the case, so I gave up and walked home, falling a couple times, and getting snow down my pants and down the back of my neck--that was from shaking the snow off my glove after falling down.

Well, I'm tired now, and I've got a couple blisters from the boots, so I'm going to end this post. I'm not sure when I'll get to the post office, but it should happen sometime next week.