Poor MsMary! Bloody med students...
It's five freakin' degrees Farenheit outside!

That's the coldest it's been here in greater DC in, like, years. We are soooo not equipped to deal with this....
The good news is that the temps should moderate a titch just in time for the big inaugural festivities to gear up on Sunday. The tourists have already begun descending -- so not only is it freakin' cold, but we've got out-of-towners clogging up the subway's express turnstiles and standing on the left on the escalators again.

To make things even more interesting, the Secret Service has decided that Virginians are way too dangerous to be allowed into DC on Tuesday -- they're going to close the two main arteries into the District *and* all the bridges coming from Virginia. They *have* relented enough, however, to allow DC hospitals to run shuttle buses for their employees who live in Virginia; there was some concern that if those folks couldn't get to work on Tuesday, emergency services could be compromised.

Thank the gods our office is closed on Tuesday. Four-day weekend, whoo hoo!
