Snow Day!!!

Apparently, "The Perfect Storm 2: Winter Edition" is developing over the northeast today, and although I don't have class on Friday anyway (I should be paid to design schedules for people), the realization that with college comes the effective death of snow days has come upon me. I remember getting up extra early on those days and turning on the television to see what school districts had found it in their hearts to allow the kids to stay inside from the arctic hell that had formed outside their homes... and then being disappointed.

I am more than grateful of having been blessed with an upbringing in the greater metropolitan area of New York, but one of the downsides was that there as an idea out that we should all be tough and capable of getting the roads together well enough to conduct regular business regardless of weather conditions. Maybe this is true in The City (note the capitalization, you know what I'm talking about), but I didn't exactly live in the city. We had that city attitude, but not the city capabilities of snow removal. Instead, we would too often end up in school as Mother Nature took a proverbial dump on the human race. This was followed by delightful trudges back through slush to return to our abodes and do the homework that we wouldn't have had if school were cancelled...

Back to the college thing. Conveniently, though last year was one of the worst for snowfall in the recorded history of the planet, the really big snows seemed to always occur on weekends or during breaks from school. So what would happen? The snow would be allowed to block every walkway imaginable... UNTIL MONDAY, when it would magically be gone so as to allow class to go on. I don't mind going to class, but when the walkway cleaning is so obviously done without regard to student comfort I get a little angry. All I ask is that things like my ability to eat meals in the dining hall or go to the library be taken into account. Is that too much to ask? IS IT? As I write this, the bottom step to the building next door (which luckily contains my dining hall!) and the new snow-aided ground level are equalizing. This has been my rant that nobody will care about.

Fear not, the 80s bashing will resume shortly.