No day like a snow day

Finally: a snow day. Maybe now we can all just relax a bit, feel a little less pressure, and get life in perspective.

I thought I'd take the day off--really wanted to--but I've been spending the morning grading essays, answering e-mails, and trying to get my life in some kind of order.

But I do enjoy a good snow day once in a while. When I was a kid, this meant a day for playing hockey, going sliding on the big hill by our house, or watching the t.v. shows that you usually missed all week. Now, I just stay in bed a little later (7 a.m.), ease into the day a little slower (at work by 8:15) and actually take a lunch break. I love looking out the window and seeing the snow piling up and hardly any cars going up or down the road, knowing that hardly anything is open. Even the mall is closed! But I'll bet Wal-mart and Tim Horton's are open because the staff gets trapped there once they're inside the doors. Might as well work while you're there, I guess is the managerial position.

Now that my work is done, though, I'm going to try to take most of the afternoon off. Unlike my students, I don't have midterm exams tomorrow or later this week.

My students in 1080 and 1101 don't have a class with me now until after the break, since Friday's class has been cancelled. (Don't look at me like that--if you were in class, you'd know it. Oh, and if you WERE in class, you do know it and probably didn't look at me, or the screen, funny at all. Don't make that face. If the wind changes, you'll be stuck with it--especially at 110 kilometres per hour! Nasty.)

So, in 1080, we're finishing "Paul's Case" on Friday, Feb. 27 (first class after the break). Then we're doing "A Good Man is Hard to Find". The comparative analysis essays are still due on March 2.

In 1101, we're finishing Frankenstein in three more classes on Feb. 27, March 2, and March 4. On March 6, we start The Divine Ryans. The out-of-class essay on Frankenstein is still due on March 2.

Questions? Just get in touch. I'll be blogging a bit over the midterm break as I see fit and whenever I sense a disturbance in the force, requiring me to intervene with words of wisdom, encouragement, or absurdity.

Talk to you again soon. Hope the snow day gives you a much-needed reprieve!

GC