In like a lion

Ice skating at Rock Center

Hello, my friend, hello

Just called to let you know... that I am tired of you.
Spring, please.

Snow? Again?

Enough with the blizzard, M. Nature.

where's the snow.

They were predicting a blizzard today. It was supposed to start at 4. There's no blizzard. I need school to be canceled tomorrow. It would make a four day weekend, since there's no school on Monday. C'mon, weather.

Today, toward the end of math class, one of my students asked me (fairly loudly) why I was so funny today. I'm always funny, I reply. You just never listen. Betty, another student, contributes, "oh, it's because she ate today. She's always in a better mood when she eats." Which made me question her logic, seeing how 1. I eat the same exact thing every day and 2. Betty has lunch in my classroom daily and watches me eat. That's right, daily. Usually it's just her, but today more kids figured my class was better (and warmer) than outside, so like 6 kids came up to play cards and eat the cashews I always share at lunch.

Cashews are magical, I tell them.

Better than hot cheetos, in any event.

What's almost as good as a snow day to send a girl home early from work?

A power outage.

What's better than a power outage in the middle of a savage thunderstorm in June?

Driving home 30 minutes and discovering that the day in her neighborhood remains warm and sunny.

Snow is melting. Ground is slushy mess.

I had a dream last night that my bank really wanted to hire me. I couldn't understand why.

I want to write a script for a creepy movie. I am trying to think of what gives me the creeps:

Birds, of course. That's been done.

Little kids with twisted grown-up minds: Children of the Corn.

I have it: Birds of the Corn. They recruit little kids to do their evil bidding indoors.

Snow Day, Part Four

I am still trying to sort out my feelings on Iraq.

Snow Day, Part Three.

Went to work for three minutes. Had to evacuate building on account of roof's collapse. Probably won't work tomorrow, either.

Two more days off. Then the weekend.

Driving to work this morning was dismal.

The roads are deserted and show early signs of flooding... Misplaced trenches, ridges and gaps dot the barely driveable highways and streets. Giant potholes are found in every lane, though most streets are reduced to only one, on account of the snow's piling.

I looked at the damage and thought, wow. This is nothing.

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Snow Day, Part Two.

Getting cabin fever.

Considering return to primitive state of nature.

Will watch Pride and Prejudice instead.

Amazing how an incapacitating blizzard with consequent collapsed buildings and thousands of power outages can make local news reporters forget for one second about impending war.

Showdown With Saddam is not receiving its usual top billing.

[ed. note: News 4 Colorado, I know that you're television news and not print journalism, but that's little excuse not to remember that it's is only used as a contraction. Its is the possessive you are looking for. Associated Press, you ought to be ashamed...]

snow day today! no work, no school. i want to go sledding. sometime between writing a paper and laundry obligations...