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With another seven inches of snow expected by morning, knee-high boots may be in order. Mayor Michael Bloomberg may be an optimist. He's sticking to simple overshoes.

"I wear Totes all the time to save my shoes. I only have two pairs," joked the mayor.

The man with a reason to curse the snow is still smiling.

"Look, it's annoying, it's inconvenient, but it's pretty and the kids love it," said Bloomberg. "I didn't get up this morning and make a few snowballs and throw 'em at anybody. But the thought occurred to me."

His approval got plowed under after last month's botched blizzard cleanup. Lest another storm wipe out his third term, he's been generous with the salt, blowing through the snow budget already.

In fact, despite the weather, the mayor sometimes seems as giddy as a youngster learning that schools are going to close -- not that that is going to happen.

"That's our job, our kids need more time in the classroom, not less," Bloomberg said.

The mayor has declared another weather emergency, meaning there's no need to feed the meter or move your car unless it's blocking the plows. The message: don't drive.

On Wednesday, the mayor practiced what he preached and took to the subways. Although he skirted a sleet-pelting walk to and from the station.

Bloomberg is still learning from the Christmas weekend storm. After already demoting a top fire department official, on Wednesday, he turned to another target of criticism: his transportation commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan's love of bike lanes irks some.

After getting an earful about the lanes at a community meeting this week, Bloomberg admitted the city has struggled to win the public relations battle. Even the transportation commissioner says she agrees.

"I don't think we've done a very good job at explaining and planning and dialoguing -- that we could certainly do," said the mayor.

Meanwhile, some critics last time are slowly warming to the mayor.

"They came to us with a plan to fix what went wrong. And they've started to do that," said City Councilman Peter Vallone Junior.

Now if only the mayor could get the sun to come out, just for a bit.