I woke up and it is SNOWING

[dr4b]

Also, the downside to this halogen heater thing is that it's bright, so I had to aim it away from the top half of my body in order to have enough dark to sleep. But that meant that when it got colder in the night and started snowing, I had a lack of heat near my head, which woke me up. Then I saw the snow. Then I was just like OMFGWTF.

Now what I can't decide is whether to ride my bike to the station through this crap or not. If I don't ride it's gonna be a loooooong walk through the snow. If I do ride it'll be a shorter but dangerous ride through the snow. And either way I'll still have to get home somehow at the end of the day. Uphill. Both ways. IN THE SNOW.

You know, I'm the idiot who rode her bike home through a typhoon a few months ago...

Best part is, during one class last night about generalizations, one guy said "Well, generally, it never snows in Tokyo."

Comments

[nykkel.livejournal.com]

Sure, perhaps "generally" it never does.

But it has two or three times while I've been there, and I've only been there for 6-8 weeks total during winter months.

[captain-squid.livejournal.com]

Big, sticky flakes that melt when they hit ground? You can totally ride through that.

(FWIW, it was -10F here over the weekend. Not much melting going on.)

[sorakirei.livejournal.com]

What a beautiful photo!

[dr4b]

I dunno. This is my first time in Japan in the winter. I figured it'd snow sometime... it honestly wouldn't be a big deal at all if my heater wasn't broken, I think :)

[dr4b]

I guess. I did ride my bike to the station. The biggest problem was actually the snow blowing into my face and getting into my eyes and making it really difficult to see.

[dr4b]

I took it with my cellphone, actually, heh...

[sorakirei.livejournal.com]

That's one rockin' cel phone camera!

[kawaru.livejournal.com]

Heh, it snowed when I was there visiting a friend over New Year's 2005. And I dunno why it wouldn't snow in Tokyo, even though people do say thhat a lot. I mean on New Year's Day a few weeks ago it snowed here in the middle of southern Kyushu.