It took a good 45 minutes to walk to work this morning. The slush is far more hazardous than the snow was yesterday. I was accosted by a few blackberry bushes, which left thorns in my pants and shoes, and found the trip generally icky overall. At about the half-way point I had to maneuver and lake-like patch of slush. When I finally made it to the opposite sidewalk, a man standing on the corner nodded sympathetically. "The novelty of this wore off yesterday," he said. Damned if that's not the truest thing I've heard today.
My office is on a very steep and slippery hill and we have narrowly averted crisis several times already (by noon). It's the delivery vans that are the worst. They are way too heavy and the companies don't bother to put decent tires on them. So I saved a red skylark from certain death at the hands of one of them. Somehow I think this is going to be a more-than-one-good-deed-for-the-day day. But maybe we'll just go home early. I'm keeping my fingers crossed (except for the one with the band-aid, this is not my day).