Turns out, today is a "snow" day. (Even though there's no snow in sight). We're currently in a "donut hole" of non-freezing precipitation (if you believe the radar), where there's freezing rain north of us, and east of us, and southeast of us.

Here, the streets are wet but look navigable. However, they're predicting "wintry mix" later on today, and maybe they figured it was better not to bring people in to campus in the first place, if it would mean not getting them home safely. (Also, we do have a lot of commuters from north of here where it is bad).

I woke up around midnight (yes, I go to bed early enough that at midnight I've been asleep for a couple hours) to use the loo and I called the recorded information-line. At that point they had cancelled class so I turned off my alarm and went back to bed. Then I dreamed that they rescinded the snow day (I don't think they could actually do that), and when I woke up I wondered if I had just dreamed that they had called off class (considering that I heard no sleet/freezing rain coming down). So I got up and called again: still cancelled.

I have a stack of research-reading to do, plus a stack of student "positional" papers (which usually take careful grading, or at least the first and second ones do - by the third, the people who want to improve their writing have, and the people who don't have kind of given up). So I have things to do.

I'm going to be disciplined today and do a couple hours of research reading and get the papers graded, and then tomorrow I think (if it's not too cold in my sewing room*) I'm going to work on the current quilt top.

And I also have a nice new big fat book of bread machine recipes (AND I have some leftover buttermilk, which some of the recipes in the book call for), so I think I'm going to put a batch of bread in this morning so I can have fresh bread with my lunch.

(*My sewing room is a former screened porch that was enclosed at some point. It's not that well insulated compared to the other rooms, and it is at the very tail end of the ductwork for the heating system and so it's usually the coldest spot in the house in the winter, and because of all the stacks of fabric I am leery about setting up a space heater in there.)