This morning, at around 10 a.m., I stood at a bus stop, 30 minutes into the morning's snow-filled commute. A fellow rider huddled next to me in the bus shelter remarked that the snow was pretty. "Yeah," I replied, "but why did this have to happen in March!"

"Because March is fucked up," he said. "You ever notice how when you meet a woman born in March, she's all fucked up? March is a mess."

I don't know about that guy's theory, nor do I know what the next 29 days of March '09 will bring, but this particular day in March was indeed a mess. Although the amount of snow on the ground didn't seem all that scary when I assessed it from my window this morning, it took me more than two hours to get to work today, thanks to all of the snow on the ground. Ridiculous.

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Forbes' latest list-y edition puts the D.C. region at No. 4 for most affluent community in the country (McLean was McMansioned out by Dallas 'burb Southlake, NYC 'burb Darien, CT, and San Francisco 'burb Los Altos), but on the shittiest commute front, we're No. 1.

According to the mag, D.C. is "by far the worst part of the country for small-city commutes. Of the 100 small towns with the longest commutes, 18 are in Maryland and 10 are in Virginia---all of which are in the suburban sprawl radiating from Washington and Baltimore."

Eat that, Texas.