Worst season ever.

Well I think it's become official that this is is Whistler's worst ever season. That is - since the resort opening at the start of the 70s. I can't help but feel a little bitter that it's been like this the year I came, but I guess everyone else who's here is in the same boat, or state of discontent. I actually believe that I have a curse on the snow, everywhere I've been in the past 5 years has been the same, yet I refuse to attribute the lack of snow to the phenomenon that is global warming like many others are willing to do because other places are getting loads of snow. Ironically, one of the reasons I came here is because of the recent unreliability of snow in the Alps... Ha. Haha. Hahahahaha...

Anyway we're still trying to make the best of it - my housemates informed me that it was actually pretty fun yesterday in the Spring conditions (that is, slush everywhere), but to me that's not really ideal, plus I expect you can't ski to the bottom any more because it was raining top to bottom the past couple of days. I can't check the riding out myself at the moment either because I've been ill for the past week :( I've spent nearly all this past week sitting around the house with the occasional trip into the village, I'm going to go back to the doctor's today in fact because I'm still running a temperature.. I had to phone in sick to work last week (oh no!) which means I am actually only going to get paid for one day's work this fortnight :)

On that note, on the Sunday morning when I rang in my supervisor actually questioned whether I was ill or not because the previous night I'd had to go and see my friend who was leaving for Korea the next day. One of the mindless lead hands was there too and he had obviously gone back to him the next day and said I'd seemed fine, when in fact I'd rung the guy who was leaving and said I wasn't going to make it because I was sick, but he pleaded with me to come so against my better judgement I decided to drop by for an hour.. I was pretty angry about the whole thing and was going to phone the manager to make a complaint but I thought there would be no way they'd do anything about it so didn't bother >:( the Roundhouse is a joke. If I were to do another season I'd definitely want to save up beforehand so I didn't have to work. I mean it's novel working on the mountain and you have beautiful views out of the window that you couldn't get nearly anywhere else etc etc, but when you have such muppets in charge and get paid such a mockery of a wage it really doesn't seem worthwhile. At the same time I was thinking that maybe if the snow was good then the atmosphere both at work and in the village in general would be that much better that it would all be ok, but it's not, so it's not, if you know what I mean :) oh well. It's still nice to be surrounded by the mountains and the weather has been very nice and mild recently ;) in fact so much so that I'm expecting to run into a bear sometime soon!