Metroblogging asks: Are you at work today?
This here metblogger lives just down the street from her office, so she had no excuse not to come in today. The official message from the office, a great big cancer-curing nonprofit, is that all essential personnel are required to come in. When I got here after my fifteen-minute tromp down the road (Guess how long it took me to get home yesterday? Fifteen minutes! Living in walking distance of work is awesome.) the office was empty.
None of my coworkers from the suburbs decided to brave the treck in, and I can’t blame them.
So now I want to know, boys and girls, how many of you are staying home in nice warm beds while suckers like me decided that there really wasn’t a good reason for not going to work?
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I’m at work. My offices are closed to day, but I am Dedicated. That and I get a vacation day for coming in on a snow day.
(woot!)
Samantha, you are starting to freak me out. We both live and work in the same area, at related institutions, walk to work, like the same music…I’m beginning to think I have multiple personalities and you’re the personality I don’t know about.
However, I’m working from home today, despite only having a 3 block walk to endure. No one else is showing up anyway, so I’m taking the excuse to stay home and do some website work.
I am at work. I also live a mere 15 minutes of walking from my office. I didn’t get the phone call that the office was closed until I was standing outside the building. I was cold, so I came inside. There are a few others here, but most people are at home.
I’m at work. In flannel pajamas.
My workplace is 15 feet away from my bed.
While telecommuting means I never get a snow day, it also means I never have to sit on a freeway or in a bus in icy weather (or any weather, or any circumstance) for several hours, nor walk on icy sidewalks in single-digit windchill. I think it’s a decent tradeoff.
my major motivation for leaving the apartment is that the building’s heating system doesn’t understand the concept of snow days and things get chilly during the afternoons, when the silly computer assumes that we’re all out being productive.
Pocketnovel: That’s possible. Do you have long spaces of time that you can’t remember, but the next thing you know you’re wearing a fabulous outfit? We might be the same person.
Elisabeth: I’ve only lived here for a couple of years, so the cold is still pretty novel for me. I don’t mind walking in the windchill. Everything is so sparkly.
I’m a fulltime nursing student, and Shoreline Community College is closed today, so I am at home in my jammies. I have big plans for doing something productive like cleaning out the fridge but I might just end up reading and drinking hot chocolate all day.
Samantha: You’re the Floridian, right? My husband is from Florida (WPB); the only places he’s ever lived with any kind of wintry weather are here and Germany. His reaction to today was, “YAAAAAY snow pretty! Oh holy **** IT’S COLD!!!!”
I’m working from home - like the majority of Microsofties today.
Grumble grumble. Had to come in to take care of an issue. Current plan is to try and get that done, make a store run, and try to make it back home before the roads completely freeze over.
Yep, born in Jacksonville and raised in the Tampa Bay area. Went to college in St. Augustine. Seattle’s my first non-Florida home. I’m a big fan of winter accessories, which I never got to wear before, and all this cold means scarves and boots and gloves and hats.
Plus, I always hated Florida, and this weather is so incredibly not Florida that it makes me happy.
the bus was running a little late this morning, but otherwise no problems. it was my first day at a new job, so i figured i should show up :)
Downtown is lovely with no one here. The streets are dry, the sun is out, no line at the Indian take-out place…and i can actually catch up on work with so few people calling.
I got up and got dressed at the normal time, and have been doing un-work-related work all day. The dishes are clean, my blog is updated (sort of), and I’ve been to three stores. Nice to have some free time.
Samantha: no, but if it includes a fabulous outfit, then I kind of wish I did! Although on the other hand that would mean I had missed out on some fabulous shopping, which would be a terrible, terrible thing.
Well, the shopping is usually more frustrating than fabulous, because there are very few places that make clothes that fit very small girls. So missing out on that isn’t too sad.
The museum where I work is not far from my apartment - down a few alleys, through the woods, past the school and I’m there. The director of the museum called me early in the morning with the news that the museum would be closed, but I couldn’t locate the phone tree to pass the message along. So I had to get up, get dressed, and walk to work anyway. I didn’t mind though, because it was absolutely gorgeous outside!
Hi, Metrobloggers! A little late, but yes, I was at work yesterday and I am at work today, in SODO. I also went to class at UW every day this week. I walked half a mile on ice both ways to the bus stop. I also got to deal with the Monday Night Football traffic on Monday afternoon before the big storm.