you get your snow day, we get our ice day

the alarm clock went off at 6:50am today. i think i had the philosopher kings in the alarm clock. it doesn't matter really because i always hit snooze as soon as it comes on. i just can't stand the drone of the waking. often, because my dreams are always intense, i have to coax my mind into the conscious state.

anyhow, i get up and get dressed for my 8am history of modern japanese architecture class. i get downstairs and wait for my brother to be ready to leave. i pack a semi-breakfast composed of a cereal bar, an apple, and some cheeze-its. i've already convinced myself that i'm going back to bed after i'm done with my morning class. i decide to check outside the window to see if my car is frozen over like it was the night before. there were ice cycles coming off the hood and my windshield wipers were iced over.

i automatically went into "dad" mode. i call it dad mode because so many mornings back home in the winter, we used to have to take the hot water kettle and defrost the windshield. i took a huge pot of water and made several trips out to the car until i could start to see actual glass. :) when my brother was ready, he got a pot and pitched in. about 15 minutes off schedule, we headed off to school.

i immediately noticed that there were hardly any cars on the road. i had never seen riverside, the main road to the highway, so empty before. i also noticed that no school buses were around. however, your mind doesn't think as fast as your gut so i kept driving ahead. john had a quiz at 8am sharp. we decided to flip on the radio and see what was up. maybe class would be delayed. we were hopeful.

after about 6 minutes of bullshit that the radio people feel they need to babble through, they announced school delays and closures. the university of texas was one of the last ones listed but they said class would be delayed until 11am. wohooo. unfortunately, we were already at the school. doh. so we turned around.

we called ahead and told jeremy not to head to work yet, that the roads were pretty bad. when we got back, john and i decided to fix ourselves some breakfast. we had eggs, toast, and bacon. after we were done, john headed to his room to watch some movies and i sat on the couch with jeremy and watched the news. about 45 minutes later they announced that all UT classes today would be canceled. wohoo. i did not want to head back out into that nastyness...and today my classes would have ended at 10pm!

i ran upstairs and told my brother and he let out a yahoo too. jeremy was unsure of wether or not to go to work. he has a major project due tomorrow but part of his group already said they weren't going to work today because of the ice. around noon, he headed off to work anyhow... he's kind of work anal like that. :)

anyhow, he just called and said he's coming back home because all the entrances to the building were cut off and that cars were having trouble getting out of the driveway.
yeah. today's an ice day. i'm going to do some studio work now. :0