Yes, this is an unusually early morning post. But I had to go online - I dragged myself out of bed (my sinuses have been bothering me so I reset the alarm for 6 and figured this would be one of my "days off" of exercise). Turned on the tv and saw the scroll for the closed/delayed things. Saw my school scroll across with "no day classes"
So I wanted to verify - these things get messed up sometimes. So I checked the campus webpage. Yup, no day classes. I'm guessing it's because of the cold (it's Northern Illinois cold, not Alaska in January cold, but that's colder than what most folks around here know). I think the roads are ok so once the sun comes up I'm still going in, I have grading.
And I will quote a Colleague's story here:
He was working in Mississippi. There was a freak snowstorm that dumped 7" of snow on the area one night (which IS pretty amazing; I think the whole time I lived in Illinois we only had one or two storms that gave 7" all at once).
My Colleague (having grown up up north) came in. And he said his advisor did as well. The advisor saw him in the hall, looked out at the otherwise deserted parking lot, muttered "f$*^&ing amateurs" and went back to his office.
No point in my going back to bed - I'm wide awake now. So I might as well not be one of the "amateurs" and at least go in and get some grading done.
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When I was in grad school in the south, we had a storm that dumped two feet of snow. Classes were canceled by the university one day, and then by all the professors the next.
I'd gone to college in northern MA, though, so I put on boots, a long wool skirt, wool socks, and my jacket and all my knitted gear and walked to the library and the department.
People knew I didn't have a car, so I was greeted with shocked "How did you get through the snow?"
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