Blue Monday

So apparently Monday 24th of January is the most depressing day of the year. I spent it at home fighting a running battle with Dust Bunnies the size of small cats - in fact I think one of them may have been a small cat - it definitely moved!

The roads are open again after the first blizzard of 2005 and now the blackening process begins. Mountains of snow piled 10 feet high at the end of all the streets will slowly but surely turn black with dirt and soot. Put some Monopoly houses on them and they'll resemble miniature Scottish Mining villages.

It's one of my least favorite sights about living in New York (along with the "He-might-be-dead" sleeping homeless guy you always have to step over when you are traveling late-night alone on the subway). These mountains of shit will be with us until the weather warms up and in NYC that can be late-April!

Another side effect to all this snow and ice is the phenomenon of the electrified sidewalk. Ice and snow corroding electric wires under the street turning manhole covers and other lovely bits of metal you step on into little doggy electric chairs. There were two incidents last year - one girl died trying to rescue her dog, the other got the "NYC Department of Sanitation" logo branded on her side after falling of a skateboard. You gotta watch where you walk in this town!