Getting around in Ottawa...

[fajrdrako]

Walked to work today. Got here ten minutes late; not bad; I suspected as I left home that I should have been leaving fifteen minutes earlier. Altogether, it took about sixty-five minutes. I'm walking so much more slowly than I used to. And there's all that snow to slow me down.

It was rather invigorating. Pleasant, but too bad I couldn't follow it with a nap.

The news, no surprise to anyone, is that the striking bus drivers rejected the City's offer of a contract and there's no end to the strike in sight.

I find it's given me a new lease, psychologically. I don't need no stinkin' buses! We can cope! Badly, maybe. It's exhausting and inconvenient, diastrously so for some, but that is (or should be) on the conscience of the Strikers and the City, who are so caught up in their own battle they don't care what happens otherwise.

But once the sidewalks and streets are ploughed, and as long as it isn't -40C frostbite weather, I can endure. Walking last night gave me a sense of freedom, and relieved some of the stress I've been feeling.

I hope I don't have to walk to the hospital from the theatre this evening - it would take at least two hours, likely more. But I can if I have to.

Comments

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

What an adorable illo of PC Gwen!!

Isn't it cute? Yes, so very huggable, in a wet Welsh sort of way.

and write more of that Gwen/Tosh story (it's still there...)

Yes, please. I would really, really, really like that.

I twinge in empathy for your hips.

They thank you, tiredly.

Certain postures of yoga would help gently strengthen all the many muscles and ligaments and joints there, no? Please, please tell me you're already doing that!

I should be. I will. Just another thing to find time for - ! But necessary. Yes. Tonight!

I'll be home with my kitties, making vegetable soup.

I made potato-leek soup yesterday. It's lovely.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Isn't it cute? Yes, so very huggable, in a wet Welsh sort of way.

Well, I'm Welsh, and I've been wet in my day (feet, today, thanks to all the nasty slush out there)... so, yeah, it's all good.

re Gwen/Tosh:
Yes, please. I would really, really, really like that.

Heh. It is all good! I will focus on that in the coming days.

Re yoga and aching hips... okay, what you need, clearly, is some postures that can be done in bed. Or in a hot shower, just before going to bed. snicker

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<i>Isn't it cute? Yes, so very huggable, in a wet Welsh sort of way.</i>

Well, I'm Welsh, and I've been wet in my day (feet, today, thanks to all the nasty slush out there)... so, yeah, it's all good.

re Gwen/Tosh:
<i>Yes, please. I would really, really, really like that.</i>

Heh. It <i>is</i> all good! I will focus on that in the coming days.

Re yoga and aching hips... okay, what you need, clearly, is some postures that can be done in bed. Or in a hot shower, just before going to bed. snicker

<i> <I'll be home with my kitties, making vegetable soup.>

I made potato-leek soup yesterday. It's lovely.</i>

I would like to learn how to make that. So many people say it's good. Today, I have wrested certain things from the wilds of the local grocery stores, and am soon on my way home to make that very same vegetable soup that I didn't make that other night (that night, I made chicken and noodles): beef soup meat with plenty of tasty marrowbones, organic celery, locally-grown cabbage, onions... already have the potatoes, carrots, corn, and peas. It will bubble away all evening as I ponder Gwen and Toshiko and how I can get them in bed together. Or on the rug together. It's all good.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Today I made chicken-vegetable stir-fry with rice. Kind of nice, making me wonder why I don't do stir-fires more often. No good reason comes to mind.