Re-Snow Day

It snowed again here today. This is super rare for Madrid to have more than one snow in a year, apparently, though I don't know first hand. The madrilenos didn't seem to know what to do. The expressions on their faces varied from utterly distraught to absolutely ecstactic, this of course from what I could see from under their umbrellas, which once again everyone except me carried.

In fact, the only two people I saw without umbrellas were television reporters interviewing passersby outside of my metro station. I remember when I first came here noticing how beautiful the women are who have this job in Spain, and how awesome it would be to have to talk about whatever subject with them. This of course would be on my way to or from work, or out at night, or coming back from an outing in some other city, and certainly not on a Sunday morning, with my hair matted down like a wet carpet and my jacket smelling like a cigarette factory on fire. That was how I was today, but fortunately or unfortunately, the two reporters who interviewed me were some of the only non-comedian males behind a camera in the whole city. It only quickly flashed through my mind that really, with the camera there, it was like talking to all of those pretty reporter women all at once, or at least to all of them who watch the morning news. Maybe it was a little different.

After discussing the weather in front of the camera-- always everyone's favorite activity-- I decided to join in the snow frenzy. Still about half a mile from my apartment I broke into a run. Plenty of other people had been running as well that I had seen, and besides my lack of umbrella required me to take some action according to the Madrid Laws of Appropriateness. In reality I was just really thirsty and the fat, wet drops of snow melting on my face weren't helping me ignore it. They could have seen the desire in my face, I'm sure, except of course that all the sane people were inside or with their eyes hidden by their tightly held, slightly forward slanted umbrellas.