Grrrrrrrr.

[katallison]

The UPSIDE of living out here on the frickin' TUNDRA where we are randomly pummelled by BLIZZARDS would be? That's right, the getting of SNOW DAYS. So how extremely vexing is it that today -- after the second more-than-a-foot snowfall in less than a week -- on a day when EVERY public and private school, technical school, and community college in the metropolitan area, not to mention libraries, day care centers, and numerous businesses large and small, are all CLOSED -- on such a day, when everyone ELSE is getting a three-day weekend and having the opportunity to get their shovelling done, the god-damned University has decided to remain OPEN. I kick you, University! I kick you HARD!

(And that photo essay I posted earlier in the week chronicling the Excavation Of The Car From The Giant Snowdrift? Yeah, needing to be done allllll over again. By 8 a.m. tomorrow. Crap.)

Comments

[heuradys.livejournal.com]

My office is open today, too. *sigh* I'm betting that most of management won't be there, though!

Good luck with the shovelling.

[bethbethbeth.livejournal.com]

In my universe, we'd just say "sorry...can't get in. It's not safe to drive" and we'd be believed.

Oh wait...you have, like, morals and stuff! :)

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Heh. It's not so much the morals as the fact that everyone in my office knows I live on a busline about ten minutes from campus, and the buses *are* running. (And I must add I wouldn't trade the occasional good excuse for a snow day for the daily awfulness of commuting by car from the remoter 'burbs. I'm just cranky on account of GODDAMN SNOW.)

[bethbethbeth.livejournal.com]

Hee.

We, meanwhile, have had *no* snow this year. Seriously...two one inch snowfalls, one of which melted overnight.

It's very weird. I mean, we're no Minneapolis (Ah, the halcyon days of my youth, trying to navigate six foot piles of snow blocking the crosswalks), but we usually get at least a few snowfalls of a foot or two.

Um. Not that I'm complaining, mind you...

-Beth, blaming it all on Al Gore who invented Global Warming. :)

[heresluck]

I gotta say... for all that I am sad not to be hanging out with you folks this evening, I am not sad that I don't have to shovel out my driveway. I have errands to run this afternoon, but since I live in Little Town on the Prairie, everything's easy walking distance.

[jackiekjono.livejournal.com]

I am grateful for the time to get my shovvelling done but, I dread the angry phone calls I am going to get from all of our parents on Monday as today doesn't suck nearly as hard as thrursday did and we stayed open then.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Well, IMO today sucked quite hard enough to be going on with. And if you need someone to take calls on Monday and tell the parents to shut their flippin' pieholes, I would be more than glad to take a day's leave from work to liaise with the public school system. (*g*)

I got my car out! Even though they have not plowed my street yet! And I got the last parking spot on Franklin! Now I can have a beer and watch vids and collapse.

[lapillus]

My sympathies, although my work was still open, albeit with greatly reduced staff.