Snow Day #5

Forget the Mambo, today was snow day number five of the 2008-2009 school year. This is the first day that we will now have to add on to the end of the school year. Four make-up days were built in to the schedule for the year. Now due to the unprecedented winter weather, that suddenly is not enough.

The most recent storm began during the day on Tuesday. I was in Indy for a conference and had made arrangements to stay with a friend and her family so that I'd be closer and have a shorter commute to the conference on Wednesday. As of Tuesday morning it was a fabulous plan. By the time I left the conference on Tuesday, however, it was slightly less thrilling. The would-be 30 minute drive around 465 lasted 3 hours. That's right. 3 hours. I never knew I could use my gas pedal so little on the interstate! :P

In the end, I was snowed in on Wednesday. Literally. My guess is that over a foot of snow had fallen between Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning. School had been cancelled and, thankfully, I was no longer expected to attend the conference- I highly doubt I would've been able to leave that early in the morning. Erin and I donned some warm clothes and romped around in the snow before I headed north to meet Anna for lunch and the like.

After a delicious Chipotle lunch (mmm- LOVE that place!) we headed to Best Buy to take care of some issues surrounding her new external CD drive. The issues were resolved and, perhaps even better, we corrected the grammar on the whiteboard sign at the front of the store. "Drive Safe" turned to "Drive Safely". Anna took the liberty to inform the employee that I was a teacher, in attempt to explain my behavior. Unfortunately the gentleman was disappointed when he learned that I did not teach English but Mathematics. Oh well.

Today Amy came over to share our mutual snow day. The making of waffles, chicken marsala, and devil's food pudding consumed the majority of our time. We've also planned to make a trip to Ft. Wayne on Saturday. Woo hoo!

School corporations have already called a 2 hour delay for tomorrow. This week rivals the one two weeks ago. In fact, I think it may beat it. I'll only have taught 1 full day and a shortened day, assuming we have class tomorrow.

By the way, you know you're a teacher when you're less than excited at the announcement of a snow day. (Or maybe the novelty has simply worn off.) Either way, I'm ready to be back...