A Return to Normal

Or close to it, at least. The government opened back up today (2 hour delay though) and Metro opened up half of the above ground stations, including mine! However, they were running on an every-35-minute schedule, which when compared to the normal rush hour schedule of every-3-to-6-minutes....disaster. I don't generally work on Fridays, but I called my boss last night offering to come in if the Metro situation wasn't too bad. She called me this morning just telling me to sleep. I think I'm going to insist on taking this as a vacation day or a leave-without-pay because while I love snow days and all...it's all a bit nuts and I feel really bad for taking my normal day off when I just got 4 of them. So, there you go, American taxpayer. I'm doing what I can.

Trucks are back out on the streets, making deliveries. Clean-up crews and construction crews abound (there's a LOT to fix--awnings falling down, whole pieces of roofs on winding up on the sidewalk, tons and tons and tons of downed trees and branches etc).

Rebecca's still here and will stay through the weekend, even though it's no longer out of pure necessity (or maybe it is--I have no idea what the roads outside of Old Town look like). We're having fun and there's lots planned for this weekend so we decided to just run with the sleepover :). She found a drop-in yoga class to take this afternoon, I went back to karate for my regularly scheduled private lesson and then ran some errands. She's still out there somewhere doing something.

We're going into President's Day weekend, which means that most people around here don't have work on Monday. This whole thing has just been so very odd. Fun, lots and lots of fun. But odd. I mean walking to karate class and to friends' houses (often in the middle of the night on like a Tuesday) in the midst of two back-to-back massive blizzards. That was my new normal. It feels kind of weird now that it's sunny and the roads are passable. Funny what you can get used to!