I’m cold.

by sam on 12/20/2005

I’ve been walking around today, chilled to the bone. All I want to do is curl up in front of a roaring fire and drink lots of hot chocolate.

I’ll be the first to say that my commute is relatively easy – 20 blocks (about 1 mile). It’s actually a pleasure to walk when, say, it’s about 15-20 degrees warmer than it was today. But this morning, by the time I got to work, I thought my face was going to fall off (and yes, I wore a sweater, wool coat, scarf, gloves, uggs and a hat that covered my ears). But I couldn’t get rid of that "chilly" feeling all day at work.

And the walk back home, after dark, didn’t help things either.

Other than the cold though, it wasn’t so bad (for me) today – in fact, there was significantly less car traffic along my route, making it a snap at intersections.

I shouldn’t even complain – one friend of mine had to walk from 101st street to Rockefeller Center. And a guy who sits around the corner from me spent 2 and a half hours walking from Queens. Oh, and then there’s another colleague who I ran into when I was walking into the office this morning (he’s a smoker, so he was outside), who had something he needed to do from the office this morning, so he drove in at 3:30 in the morning from the burbs in order to beat the 5a.m. start time on the carpooling requirements (mainly because there were still rumors at that point that Metro-North might have a sympathy strike). Yeah, I had it pretty easy.

But I’m still shivering. And I’ve been home for two hours. And I just had spicy food for dinner, thinking it would help.

It didn’t.

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