Emerging from the snow bank

1. Haven't had this much snow since 2008, a year whose dates fall on the same days is this year's. (I notice things like that.) What was I doing this week in 2008? Shovelling 15 cm dumps of snow, Thursday and Saturday and next Tuesday as well.

2. Agreed the snowstorm was less blizzard and more steady downfall from morning to evening, still-- everyone but the downtown UofT campus decided to close Friday morning. UofT didn't close until 3, which was useless, since the campus was deserted all day. And all the kiddygarden kids had trudged up to kiddygarden so their parents had to go there to pick them up.
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Oh, interesting. Poems on the Underground to celebrate the 150th(!) anniversary of the London Underground. None of the current ones that I can see, and the editing is atrocious (Anin?) but still, fun to read.