Staying alive

Take some snow followed closely by rain; freeze and then add more snow on top and whip it all up with some vicious wind and what do you get?

A Snow Day, that's what you get. I don't know what campus looks like but my road looks a thrill ride at Ice World, and let's not even talk about the driveway. I'm staying home today, but it's not exactly a day off. I've cancelled my only Wednesday class but I'm requiring the students to participate in an online discussion of the reading material so we don't fall too far behind. I'm using the same methods I developed for last semester's Pandemic Day (read about it here), and so far it seems to be working.

I'm also missing three meetings this afternoon, which is good news. Any three-meeting day is bound to be brutal, but three meetings occurring during my stupidest time of day--well, I'd rather be one of those hedgehogs in Alice's surreal croquet game. Being repeatedly hit by a croquet mallet can't possibly be any worse than being subjected to committee-conceived prose three times in one afternoon.

There will be consequences, of course. There are always consequences. We'll have to do a little catching up in the American Lit Survey class, and the three meetings will eventually be rescheduled, although perhaps not on the same day. But meanwhile, we're celebrating Valentine's Day by staying home--and staying alive.