I’ve moved desks at work — from a windowless central room to a big cube-farm sort of space with HUGE WINDOWS, right next to my new space! Most face east, and two face north. They let in morning sunlight best, but by this time of year, sunset falls right around the time I get out of work, so I’ll get sunlight all day.

My overall mood has improved drastically.

The only sad part is that I had to take my potted ivy home to let it get used to shaded sunlight before I could place it at my new desk. It had spent the past year and a half under fluorescent lights, and when I took it home around the holidays, it burned when I put it in direct sunlight! So I’m going to baby it a little, repot it, then bring it in.

I am on it.

All the cool kids have one, or so I am told. I’m generally horrible about social networking sites. The big draw of Facebook for me, lately, has been finding people I went to high school with and staying connected to current and former coworkers — especially since my best friend set a Tetris Marathon score so high I can only gaze at it in wistful amazement, my attempts to beat it falling comically short.

LinkedIn has no such distractions. Also, I am also advised that it’s professionally beneficial and I am a total lemming in this job market, it’s best not to take chances.

Now, to see if I can find a nice, professional photo of myself to add (LinkedIn is nagging me because I have not uploaded one, nor have I been “recommended” by any of my shiny new connections). Most of my self-taken photos are, shall we say, candid. Not a very put-together presentation of myself. Okay, okay: I tend to be wearing the same old ratty sweater and holding a cat.

So you’ve probably heard that most of the East Coast got hit with an unseasonable snowstorm, with expected accumulation greater than seasonable snowstorms usually are.

I am here to tell you that this is true, and that I survived the Snowpocalypse.

Just to set the stage for you, allow me to point out that around Valentine’s weekend, I had the apartment windows open and a breeze blowing through. Last Thursday, it was 63 degrees in Baltimore. There have been some colder days and nights, but I only expect to wear my winter coat for another couple of weeks by this time of year.

This morning, I put my stompy boots on and swept six inches of snow off the car. (I wish I had photographic evidence of this.) Plows and salt trucks had been out all night, so the roads were in decent condition; the major highway I take every day was wet, but clear. The parking lot at work was another snowy, slippery story.

There’s hardly anyone at work today — many people are working from home, and/or had to stay home with their kids, whose schools were closed — and the City of Baltimore has announced the activation of Phase I of the Snow Emergency, meaning that vehicles are supposed to have chains or snow tires, under threat of traffic citation. My Michigan upbringing laughs at your ridiculous request, even if I do drive a Yaris! Besides, the Winter Storm Warning for this storm expired at 2 p.m., so things are dying down now.

Here is what the tail end of a Baltimore Snow Emergency looks like (photos indulgently provided by Matt):

Yeah. If you need me, I’ll be buying up canned foods and bottled water.

[Post title taken from the headline of this ABC News story. Overblown much?]