Comments on: A fun winter activity

By: trillwing

trillwing — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 22:58:12 +0000

Ugh. Too cold! I’m from Southern California, and when I experienced my first taste of Iowa winter in college, I asked many, many times: “People live NORTH of here?”

By: plam

plam — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 04:15:38 +0000

trillwing: Yes. People even go skiing (and get frostbite).

Since I’m 20m from public transit, I don’t even wear a lot of clothes on the way to school. Sometimes I wear a hat for crossing the street.

By: wolfa

wolfa — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:00:06 +0000

Aww, Trillwing, we have a word for people like you: wimps.

Plam, I didn’t realise you were in this city again. But you know, they have yet to build the tunnels from the metro to the university (they were planned. Once). But what’s “a lot of clothes”? You wear a winter coat, no?

By: plam

plam — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:00:26 +0000

I can deal with crossing Sherbrooke without real winter clothing. Unfortunately, my parents live 600m from the metro, and that’s more painful without a winter coat. Oops.

I actually find that winter coats just take up more room than I’d like on the metro. Although, come to think of it, my skiing jacket doesn’t take up that much room. But I don’t wear it in the city.

By: wolfa

wolfa — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:02:23 +0000

I admit, the winter jacket is too warm on the metro, and it’s impossible to take them off (unless you travel only on off-peak hours). Not that I mind being extra warm on the metro, except that it becomes very unpleasant when I actually leave.

By: plam

plam — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 04:13:43 +0000

Well, I never go towards downtown during peak hours. That’s because I don’t get up early. Sometimes I think I should work more, though.

By: wolfa

wolfa — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 13:21:51 +0000

I have just done that, and it takes me 15 minutes, and it’s the most amazing thing ever. I wish I worked downtown all the time. Or was independently wealthy — that would be ok, too.

By: eb

eb — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 19:46:09 +0000

I have been heard to complain about sunny and mild weather.

By: plam

plam — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 22:03:51 +0000

It also takes me about 25 minutes to bike downtown. But I haven’t been very motivated to do that recently. It is nice to live so close to downtown and to not have to go to the suburbs though.

I was just thinking that it would be nice to be independently wealthy. Then I wouldn’t necessarily have to go on job interviews.