Well, the snow arrived at a very inopportune time. It started at just about one this afternoon, right in time for the drive home.

Have I mentioned how much I hate snow?

I know, I live in New England so I’m not supposed to complain. Well I live here through the accident of birth, not necessarily choice. I stay here because of family, and also because I’m in a rut and fully entrenched in my job.

Sadly enough.

I really really really hate driving in the snow. I don’t trust anyone who is behind a wheel, and find that the roads have rarely been cleaned sufficiently to make them safe for travel. Then of course is the added insecurity since my mailbox incident last January.

Today, I snuck out of school a bit early, which was a good thing, as the traffic was already heavy, the roads slick, and the snow was coming down quite rapidly. It took me about 45 minutes to get home and it usually takes maybe twenty minutes. Part of this is because of the Hoity-Toity Town that I have to drive through.

Hoity-Toity town doesn’t believe in treating the roads. Ever. They will plow once they have a six-inch covering, but not one-second before that. All the residents of Hoity-Toity Town drive huge SUVs with four wheel drive so it doesn’t matter to them. It’s the peons who have to drive through that have to suffer.

And slip and slide through the town.

But I’m home.

The snow is really piling up outside (to steal a line from a Meatloaf song), and they say we’ll have at least a foot by morning. They also say that the storm will end before daybreak, making a cancellation tomorrow very unlikely.

I guess that’s ok, I wanted the snow day today, and I don’t care too much about tomorrow. I just don’t want to drive unless the roads are cleared. We may get a delay, but that doesn’t do me much good as I still leave at the regular time to allow for the poor roads.

It does look really pretty outside. This is a wet, heavy snow and it’s sticking to the branches, so it looks lovely.

This is also the kind of snow that often causes power outages, so all the news people are telling me to gather candles, blankets and water. I think the first thing I should do is take out my contact lenses, it’s a real hassle to take them out and get them into the container if there are no lights.

I did turn up the heat and turned on the electric blanket so that I’ll have some toasty warmth to snuggle into later on, lights or no lights.

Of course if we do lose power it will be sometime during Ally McBeal. It’s inevitable. It’s the only show I watch faithfully and tonight is the last episode with Robert Downey so the gods will decree that to be the time to turn out the lights.

So I will cross my fingers and hope that the power stays on until ten. After that I’ll be going to bed and it won’t matter to me one way or the other.

Unless the alarm fails to go off in the morning.

We’ll just have to wait and see.