It's looking better

Well, LEGOMAN is all packed up, along with a few other already-obtained Christmas gifts (it's easier to bring them now, rather than AT Christmas, when I need to carry 2 + weeks of clothes (and books, and knitting).

It looks as if it should be okay to drive. However, out of an excess of caution (and I can almost guess who in Campus Police made the decision), they closed campus. Probably "bueno" from the aspect of people not risking driving in from rural areas that might be icier, but "no bueno" because I was to give an exam today, so everything will be pushed back....I'm moving the presentations from Wednesday lecture-time of next week to lab-time, which means 14 some presentations, which will be deadly (especially for me, who is grading them) but it can't be helped. I need to give a fourth exam, especially considering how some folks did on the third one.

I put the trash out a few minutes ago - the sidewalk and road are merely damp, but the trees have a thin glaze of ice, which tells me that right now, overpasses are likely to be icy. But I bet by 1 pm things are a lot better, so I'm planning on going but driving carefully.

Also, the WINTER STORM WARNING is now a winter weather "advisory," which is a lot less dire. I think one thing that happened was that a lot of areas stayed above freezing, which was not expected, and also, a lot of areas are so dry that much of the precipitation evaporated (or sublimated, if it was frozen - and yes, sublimated is the right word and I wish the weather people would use it instead of figuring no one knows or cares enough to look it up if they DON'T know. Though if it was frozen, then melted, then evaporated, it would still be "evaporated"....)

My train is currently "on time" but seeing as the only stop so far has been its departure from San Antonio... I'll keep checking (there's a nifty map-based tracker that uses the information Amtrak puts out). But hopefully everything will go better than it looked like it would even yesterday morning.

Hopefully I am also over whatever stomach upset I suffered. (I don't think it was just some weird food sensitivity; it lasted far longer than that normally does). I've been carpet-bombing my stomach with friendly bacteria (yogurt) in the hopes of getting things to normalize. I don't know if this was a virus  or what.

They were talking about an outbreak of Shigella in one of the Sherman public schools. But, Shigella? I thought that was a really serious illness (and was, like, one of those things North American travelers got if they weren't careful of what they ate in the tropics). So I kind of doubt that was it. But still, an unhappy few days for my diet - all I felt like I could eat was fruit, yogurt, and bready things. (I did eat turkey and trimmings at the departmental lunch, but that was before the worst of it came on)