Guest Post by India the Awesome Analyst!

Hello avid fans of Rebloga!  I am so excited to write this guest post!  Rebecca and I work together and when she said she was looking for guest bloggers I asked her what the application process was...clearly I am a nerd.  But I wanted to take a few minutes to warn you about the dangers of winter in my hometown of New York (and anywhere else it gets cold).

My morning commute in winter now features  brokers in ski masks…women who forgot to wear tights, running and cursing all the way to the office, and an excuse to wear leather and boots.  I am originally from Illinois so I am no stranger to cold.  However, I did spend the last four years at college in southern California so I was nervous I might have gotten a bit soft. 

My suspicions were confirmed on Tuesday.  I was commuting from my client site in New Jersey to the city.  My iPhone told me a Whole Foods was a mere two blocks away.  2 blocks in 8 degree weather?  No problem.  I had a coat.  I had gloves.  Then fast forward 45 minutes.  I was lost in Tribeca, which is basically just large indiscriminate warehouses in the dark.  During this time, my hands started hurting.  I have small hands and they get cold very easily so I didn't think too much of it.  I abandoned my search for food and made a beeline for the closest subway station.  Down below I discovered a problem: my fingers wouldn't move.  Every time I tried to pull off a glove I would squeal like a school girl.

Frostbite.  Yes I gotten frostbite.  I stood in the station for about 20 minutes looking pitiful until my hands had thawed enough to get my metro card out.  After a painful subway ride back home, I crouched in front of a space heater and slowly warmed them.  I couldn't type--which made me nervous considering we are chained to our computers at work often at the hands of the benevolent dictator Rebecca.  I slept in gloves.  As the days progressed the color and feeling returned.  I am of course typing this in gloves right now.  All in all, it was a mild case. But in case you needed any further incentive: BUNDLE UP THIS WINTER!

There are a few other take aways from this tale:
1. Do not believe your iPhone in terms of directions.  It can and will lie to you.
2. Making a Whole Foods run in 8 degree weather is ok...if you know where it is
3. Do not rub your hands if you get frostbite--this only increases the tissue damage.


Keep warm, you don't want to have to explain why you lost your fingers to frostbite.  You couldn't even perform the awkward turtle  hand gesture after that conversation.  Now that's awkward.