Well today has been UBER productive. I find snow days a reason to tell mother nature to blow it up her caboose. Damn near a foot of snow has fallen and I have been doing homework, calling family members and gathering a slew of recipes, I cleaned all of the kitchen cupboards, . . .
I have done three loads of dishes, had an early lunch, made a conference call to a professor, and ran out to Office Max for a bigger binder and four bottles of diet coke – all before 12:30pm!
The ride out was the best – cleaning off the car is always a bit of a bitch but I got it done and remained dry and warm (it is the “fluffy” stuff). It is always kind of humorous to drive around in this stuff and I find it pretty fun if the roads are clear of other drivers – I managed to find one parking lot to play in on my way to the Office Max. 
Now I am back home, doing a bit more homework and hoping to tackle the bedroom later today. Gotta love them snowdays 
So no huge surprise – no school today. I’m pleased. Yesterday was my birthday and I felt fairly unmotivated – if I had my afternoon classes today (the morning one was cancelled as of last night), I would have had a large assignment to do yet this morning.
Now I can chill and get that assignment knocked out today while I hang out at home. I was up before 5 and now I am wide awake, doing dishes and already e-mailing prosecutors.
Last night Brian came over for a bit to celebrate my day – I made up a dinner of spaghetti and vegan italian sausage and daikon-potato latkes. It was really good and there are plenty of tasty leftovers. Brian brought me a gift – a hot air popcorn popper. It is certainly not something I would typically purchase for myself, but after we used it last night, I am really glad he got it for me. It requires NO OIL at all and being that bulk popcorn is fairly cheap, I’ll save money not buying microwaveable anymore. Granted, it is hard to put salt on plain popcorn, but it was tasty nonetheless and it could easily cure a late night craving in a healthful way.
So yea, today will likely prove to involve more cleaning and lots of homework – if I work hard today I will be able to knock out the rest of this weeks work and possibly even get a head start on next week!
Ciao and stay safe out there!
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I went to bed hearing the news report – around 8 inches of snow expected to fall by noon today. I figured with that much, which is practically unheard of around the city, I should expect the University to close today. Well, it is after 5am and nothing. I just happened to wake up and popped on the tv real quick to see what was up – the snow has fallen. There is dang near 9 inches on the ground now and it is still coming but no additional school closings.
Ok, ok, yes I am up early. But can’t they just get on with it so that I don’t have to be up at 6am getting ready for my afternoon classes just to find out later they are cancelled? Hmm, I just saw that another University in the area is delayed for 2 hours . . . how do you DELAY a university!?! Get real.
Erg. Well, I am hopefully going back to bed and hopefully won’t be in a scramble when I wake up to get my junk done if I do have to go in this afternoon.
Ciao.
Brian and I went to Evansville for the weekend to see our friends Leslie and Sarah. We had a great weekend. I will have to update you all about it tomorrow when I am more awake.
While we were away, we missed out on some major storms which caused the area to flood pretty badly. I took a couple videos of Columbus, IN on the way home. The footage isn’t really clear but you can certainly get the idea.
Talk to you later!
Columbus, Indiana Flood – from I-65
Columbus underwater
Interesting night/morning.
If you haven’t heard, there was an earthquake on the southern Ill. / IN. boarder very early this morning.
I woke up, disoriented and confused. I felt my bed clearly shaking back and forth but I couldn’t really tell why it was shaking. It was a rather long quake too! I had enough time to think about what possibly was causing the movement. An earthquake did cross my mind but about as quickly as I considered it, I dismissed it. I have only ever felt one other quake and I was very young and it was super short.
This morning Brian informed me there really was an earthquake here this morning and that it woke him up too. Apparently the epicenter is fairly active… at least for an area outside of the typical quake zones.
In other news, the neighbors are probably convinced I have tourette’s after the raucous outburst I had last night. The lights were off in my bedroom and I was attempting to hop/step over the pile of clothing I knew was between me and the bedroom door. I miscalculated and landed with all of my weight and then some (the “hop” part) onto the heel of one of my pumps. The phrase I used at that point was probably as colorful as my foot this morning which is still swollen, hot, tingly, and has the perfect circular mark of the heel of a shoe embedded in it.
Other than these fun things, I am bumming today. I should be bumming at the laundry mat…. but I’m bumming at the moment. I am going to read a book about Animal law for a book report, do some additional homework and just enjoy a rare day at home maybe. We’ll see
For your FYI: You CANNOT snowblow ice. Nor can you snowblow “snow” that has accumulated less than a half of an inch.
This morning as I was leaving my apartment I almost slipped and got killed on the crusty black ice coating that had covered the sidewalk – there was no actual “snow” on the sidewalk and it looked deceptively safe. As I am scraping the 1/4 inch of ice off of my car, I hear/see a maintenance man snowblowing the sidewalks.
I was seconds away from taking my combination scraper/squeegee and beating the shit out of him for “playing” with his blower when all he really needed to do was put down some salt.
It is time to migrate south…. much, much, more south.
The forecast for today:
This morning at 7:30 I ran out to grab some breakfast. It is beautiful out… well, a little grey and there is definitely a chance of storms, but there was just a nice cool breeze and that fabulous spring time smell in the air.
I got home and my apartment was already up to 73 degrees with the heat totally turned off! At 8am! I opened all of the windows and showed Oliver who decided he was too nervous to sit on the high window sill unsupervised.
A few minutes later a couple of twitterpating birds flew by and he suddenly lost his fear of heights.
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On a rare occassion where I was hoping for snow, the storm made a significant shift. We might still get our 6 inches by tomorrow afternoon but it will certainly be over after that. However, the whole state of Michigan is getting nailed. They will be lucky to dig out by Monday afternoon….
weather blows.
So tonight comes the snow finally. Between today and tomorrow we are supposed to get around 6 inches and snow and probably a 1/4 inch of ice or so. I was hoping the storm would hit later and possibly get my last final backed up unti Tuesday but, alas, it has snowed a solid inch or two already today.
So I just called my father to chat and he mentioned that he hadn’t heard of any bad weather coming his way. I checked weather.com while we were on the phone and the forecast had changed for his area apparently: winter storm warning beginning at 4am Sunday, continuing through midnight Sunday. 10 to 14 inches of snow expected, windgusts up to 35mph, snow drifts around 2 feet expected…
I laughed … a lot.
Hopefully my mom and Ron see this forecast as well! They live a few hours south of my dad but Sunday they are supposed to travel to the same general area for my mom’s family Christmas gathering. It is always scary to have the whole family on the road in such nasty weather. This might be one of the first years where they might not be able to attend due to weather!
Well, studying more today. Go figure. I am ready for this semester to be over. It was long – school was long and the move in the middle of the school year was unexpected. As much as it was great to get out of my old lease, it was not perfect timing. Things have certainly looked up since moving however.
Well, I am going to try to get back at it. Oliver says purreeerrp (the errrp part has a higher octave). He isn’t as much of a meower as he is an “errrper”. Oh, and it has been decided he will be hanging out with Brian while I am home for the Holidays. After considering it, a 6 hour ride home, and then a 2 hour ride to my dads, plus the two return trips… well… that seems like a whole lot for a cat. Plus, Oliver really likes Brian so he should enjoy a boys week.
oohh…. it is super snowing now! I’m hoping for a “snow in” through Tuesday! haha.
I will be working in the basement all day today (minus occasional tool runs to the garage) and I decided to pop in a movie. Looking through mom’s collection I couldn’t decide if I wanted to watch the Thorn Birds (4 VCR tapes – an all day thing), or A Woman of Substance (3 tapes - almost all day too) or if I wanted to go with the dual video tapes – Spartacus, Cleopatra, Ben-Hur etc.
I chose Spartacus and it is just now beginning. It began with an overture – I always loved how Gone with the Wind begins with the overture – such a grand touch. It is so amazing to think of what a huge project making a movie back then was that it deserved it’s own symphony piece….
So I am going to keep working down here, attempt to find a stapling gun, and watch my movies.
Tomorrow I head back to Indy. It has been nearly 100 degrees here most of the second part of the week and that is just breaking now. Turns out that starting Monday, Indy will be that hot most of the coming week…. just where I want to be in that kind of heat. Here I could at least retreat to the basement where it is almost too cold on the hot days when the air runs continually. Perhaps I will run over to Brian’s place and take a cooling dip in the Apartment pool – I swear they don’t heat that thing so that could be just the ticket…so long as I don’t burn this time!! lol
I hope all of you are having a great day!! I will make bigger updates once I am back home!
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I know I checked the 10 day forecast not that long ago and I am almost positive I wouldn’t have overlooked weather like this!
It is almost 8:30 and it is 75 degrees outside right now. In March! I’ve been in my room all day doing hw and have been wondering why on Earth I was so uncomfortable all day…. on top of the sudden burst in temperature, we have been dealing with a lot of showers, sprinkles, and all out storms lately so the humidity is pretty stifling.
I am sure it would feel good if the change hadn’t occurred so quickly. Tomorrow, they are calling for a high of 79 degrees! I am pretty excited about that! I just realized that I only have one class tomorrow too (that is always a nice surprise) so I can come home early and work on my trial brief and some other random stuff I want to take care of.
This was a nice weekend over all. Not too busy but not too bland… just relaxing. I better enjoy it while I can. Only 4 weeks left to this semester…. wow! Time really does just fly by.
Dang… I love the idea of warm weather… but my hair is currently doing it’s typical “after beach party” look… half of my head in waves and the other half – flat as a board stuck to my face… woohoo lol
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There isn’t much to say except:
* a 75 degree day in March forgives any fashion faux pas
* healthy, yummy suppers = big grins and happy tummy’s
* just because a liquor store sells, oh, about 200 different varieties of wine doesn’t mean the help nor store owner knows shit about it – fortunately, I watch Frasier (if you didn’t already know that…) and a Napa Valley Cab was the perfect pick for me tonight.
* mom arrives in a little over 24 hours *whoop whoop*
* once I find a horse, I will be riding it.
* there is a road trip in your very near future…. I predict it does not involve a car….
* “skinny” flip flops are <3
* 1 Sonicare toothbrush – $99.98. The thirty minutes I spent contemplating the purchase – essentially free. The peace of mind that I may have saved myself the embarrassment of having to beg my roommate to make me into his guinea pig – priceless.
moo
Woohoo, snow day #2 begins tomorrow! This is a pretty huge shock. I figured my 8:30a.m. class would be cancelled since rush hour would likely be a messy disaster with the high winds we will have all night and in the morning, but I thought for sure my 12:45 and 2:20 classes would be in session….
Well, surprisingly enough, those were the first two classes to be cancelled! The snow will end tonight, most likely within the next hour or so and I am guessing that they could have the roads pretty well cleared off by rush hour if it weren’t for the winds that they are predicting tonight.
Sadly, the storm has interfered with my Valentines Day plans slightly… I modified them accordingly, which is a bummer, but the point certainly isn’t lost.
So, I figure tomorrow I will finish up my laundry and study study study (since all of these missed classes will have to be made up in the future!)… I will have class on Thursday as planned I am sure, BUT my only Friday class was cancelled last week due to plans of the Professor. lol.. what a week! Honestly though, it was a well needed break and I am hoping it rejuvenates me a little bit
*Had to put this out there…. just some thoughts when someone uses the bible as their reason for considering homosexuality an “abomination”….
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A snow day…. a real live snow day! I haven’t had one since high school! Michigan State was involved in some kind of legal battle before I began there because the University was closed and some students felt it was unnecessary and wanted a “refund”….
*part of me wants to say I understand that thinking. Out of shear curiosity, I grabbed a calculator and it turns out that I am paying $90.00 per class session…. (if you’re curious, I figure there are, on average, 163 classes a semester). So yes, I have paid to be educated, but as far as I am concerned, getting a day off is a bonus!*
Every University and college in the area is shut down (not to mention 100% of all other schools), and oddly, a lot of dentist’s offices… I am not really sure what that is all about. Ironically, my roommate, a dental student, had to go to school today.
I am thrilled because had it been up to the individual professors, I am convinced my morning and afternoon class would be cancelled but my mid-day class would be operating as scheduled.
Personally, I did read a case last night, but after re-reading and re-viewing the weather reports, I decided to just chill
So, to be perfectly honest, it really does appear that this snow day is well warranted. About a 1/2 hour or so north of the city there is a blizzard warning as well as a “no unneeded travel” advisory, to the south; freezing rain, which has begun to move into the city as I type. Although there are a lot of plows out and lots of salting going on, this is going to continue all day long. It is just a tad too much to keep up with.
One of the local news casts has been on from 4am to the present time! And it is kind of ridiculous. lol… Basically, they have spent 5 hours going through a loop of people talking about snow/ice/slush and NOTHING BUT snow/ice/slush! lol, There have been absolutely no reports of any other news on this channel!
Here is a run down of the station’s superior reporting:
They go to the anchors: “there is a major winter storm going on… over 600 school closings… blah blah, lets go to the weather guy”…
weather guy: “it’s been a busy night/morning, there are blizzards in the north, freezing rain and snow in the city, and freezing rain and ice in the south.”
back to anchors: “lets go to _____ (reporter ) who is reporting live in _____ (city/county).”
reporter: “there is not a lot of traffic. Oh, and look at this ______ (snow, ice, slush)… here, watch me _____ (scrape, shovel, swoosh my feet).”
Anchors: “wow! Let’s check traffic.”
traffic gal: there aren’t a lot of accidents *could it be b.c. there is no traffic?*
back to anchors: “if you’re just tuning in, there is a major winter storm going on…..”
lol, if it weren’t so absurd, I’d be pissed I was missing the Today Show!
