Reason #64578932 I love my boss
Jan. 21st, 2005 05:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katallisonE-mail sent out on the college-wide listserv, 3:40 this afternoon:
"Due to the snow, I have decided it is best to close the college early today. Go home! Drive carefully!
[signed, Bossman]"
Whatta sweetie. The snow is not actually all that horrific; 3-4 inches on the ground maybe, but falling thick and fast. We should have perhaps a half-foot by morning.
However, this is the first actual snow we've had all winter--it's been the least snowy winter of the past *century* in these parts. We had that weird splurt of freezing slushy rain around New Year's, which instantly laminated itself to the ground in a half-inch-thick sheet of white slippery linoleum, and then a few wan ineffectual thin flurries on top of that. But this is the first by-god snow of the season, and so of course everyone is freaking out, and driving like idiots.
And for all my cursing of it, I am once again helplessly reminded that the snow is the great compensation for living in this climate, because it is so exquisitely and utterly beautiful. It's very mild out, muffled, dimly luminous, and everything is white and grey and softly swirling.
I am home, eating a big bowl of whole-wheat pasta with pesto and sipping red wine. Work was absolutely crazed today, with project after crisis after dilemma piling up on my desk and in my voicemail, and I've brought home a stack of papers to work on this weekend, in between bouts of dealing with family crises. But the snow makes everything calmer (at least once one is off the roads), and the wine makes everything mellower, and assuming nothing immediate happens tonight with the family crises, I think I shall burrow in under a blanket and watch Millennium episodes. (My season 2 disks came last week! Yay!!)
"Due to the snow, I have decided it is best to close the college early today. Go home! Drive carefully!
[signed, Bossman]"
Whatta sweetie. The snow is not actually all that horrific; 3-4 inches on the ground maybe, but falling thick and fast. We should have perhaps a half-foot by morning.
However, this is the first actual snow we've had all winter--it's been the least snowy winter of the past *century* in these parts. We had that weird splurt of freezing slushy rain around New Year's, which instantly laminated itself to the ground in a half-inch-thick sheet of white slippery linoleum, and then a few wan ineffectual thin flurries on top of that. But this is the first by-god snow of the season, and so of course everyone is freaking out, and driving like idiots.
And for all my cursing of it, I am once again helplessly reminded that the snow is the great compensation for living in this climate, because it is so exquisitely and utterly beautiful. It's very mild out, muffled, dimly luminous, and everything is white and grey and softly swirling.
I am home, eating a big bowl of whole-wheat pasta with pesto and sipping red wine. Work was absolutely crazed today, with project after crisis after dilemma piling up on my desk and in my voicemail, and I've brought home a stack of papers to work on this weekend, in between bouts of dealing with family crises. But the snow makes everything calmer (at least once one is off the roads), and the wine makes everything mellower, and assuming nothing immediate happens tonight with the family crises, I think I shall burrow in under a blanket and watch Millennium episodes. (My season 2 disks came last week! Yay!!)
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Date: 2005-01-22 12:03 am (UTC)I hope the family crises stay unobtrusive and allow you to have a weekend.
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Date: 2005-01-22 12:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-01-22 12:21 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-01-22 12:22 am (UTC)I finally am having to give up clogs as my outdoor shoe of choice for the winter. My real winter boots were burried under three layers of stuff in the coat closet when I got them out to toddle over to Kowalski's in search of sushi for dinner (it was my excuse to go out into the white fluffy stuff since my sinus infection pretty much precludes either useful things like shoveling and fun things like build snowmen -which this would be a great snow for).
Things are now feeling right in the world (the lack of snow was disorienting). *g*
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Date: 2005-01-22 01:24 am (UTC)Actually closing for snow, that is so cool. Me, I'm just glad we're getting it on a weekend so I can stay indoors till it's over. Yay for wine and pasta!
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Date: 2005-01-22 01:41 am (UTC)It was not fun. But very pretty.
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Date: 2005-01-22 04:43 am (UTC)Sending hopeful thoughts for your family crises.