I wrote this to my cousin and it's a pretty good summary of what's been going on as of late. Notice the subtle allusion to said cousin's BIG NEWS in the final paragraph.

So I had almost finished this really long email about various things on Friday, only to lose it because my Juno webmail session expired.  I guess that should teach me not to write personal emails at work.

Anyway, I'm getting used to the true New York City winter experience -- i.e., massive amounts of snow piled up on the sides of the streets and sidewalks but very little of it that you can actually walk through.  But I sold my car [Editor's emphasis, as is this: ] about 90 minutes before the "blizzard" hit last Saturday so I didn't have to do the digging out the car and trying to parallel park between the snow piles thing -- which I definitely got enough of the last two years.   I've been lucky enough to avoid most of the major subway disasters of late.  There was a big fire last weekend that has shut down one line completely and seriously restricted the express line that runs parallel to it -- it is the only line near one of my friend's apartments so she's been doing a lot of extra walking. And there are certain other lines that seem to mess up as soon as we get any precipitation.  The funny thing is, my friends all made fun of me for moving so much farther out from Manhattan but lately I can get places far easier and faster than they can.