Snow Days Are the Best Days
Part of me wanted Snowpocalypse 2012 to be over so I could subsist on more than leftover pizza and actually go places…
…but the other part of me loves how quiet it is when it snows here. Not to mention the impromptu extended MLK holiday it gave me. Clearly the best part.
It snowed all over western Washington while I was in Seattle visiting my parents and my doggies for the MLK weekend. It had largely melted in Seattle when I left on my train around 7 PM on Monday night. However, not as such in the Ham. Lucky for me, my dad looked at my canvas shoes, then my gigantic backpack stuffed with many ridiculously heavy textbooks and huge suitcase, and realized I was totally not going to be able to walk a mile home from the bus stop in a foot of snow, and that my bus might not even show up due to snow. Then he gave me 20 bucks for a cab so I didn’t die walking home when a car slid off the road into my face or something. The best.
These are most definitely not snow shoes.
I was all worried I wouldn’t get home in time to get to bed and get enough sleep before my 8 AM French class1 which turned out to be both justified and unjustified at once. Yellow Cab forgot to send me the cab I asked for so I didn’t get one until about two hours after my train had arrived at 9:30 PM.
I also rediscovered that college does not make you smart. Driving by the WWU campus reminded me because students who live on or near campus were throwing snowballs at cars driving late at night on ice and snow uphill with snow still coming down pretty hard, and cars fishtailing all around. Good job. I offered my cab driver a larger tip if he ran them over, and as much as he wanted to, he declined to take my offer because evidently an extra dollar isn’t worth going to jail. Who knew.
Turns out my fears about not getting enough sleep were useless because the next day they cancelled my aforementioned French class because the college was on a late arrival schedule. I normally only have two classes and a French conversation practice tutoring session on Tuesdays so, due to my lack of boots or any sort of snowish shoes and the fact that essentially all of my homework for Spanish is via Quia online, I gave myself a snow day and ordered a ridiculously meat-laden pizza to keep me fed over for three days since I lacked any food beyond two organic~ carrots.
This is Snowpocalypse 2012 for western Washington. This tree is covered in snow so clearly it was worth taking a picture of it.
Getting to be lazy around the house for three days and eat trashy takeout is awesome, though I do feel like I should have just stayed in Seattle for an additional several days to get to hang out with my family and my poor, poor puppy (more about her another time). But still, love the break.
On Wednesday, at least, my limited-edition~ audiobook boxset of The Fault in our Stars by John Green, as read by the author. I read the book when it was released last week on January 10th and loved it. It’s pretty awesome.
It included memorabilia from a concert so epic it never technically occurred.
Yesterday after breakfast/lunch, I finally ran out of pizza which lead me to ordering some trashy-delicious Chinese delivery late last night. I ordered it from a place called Best Chopsticks in the Ham. When you go to their website, there’s a section called online ordering, which normal people would expect to take them to, I don’t know, a page where you can order online. Oh, not so with Best Chopsticks. Instead they have a page telling you to contact the restaurant to find out more information about how to order online. ….really? If I have to call them to find out, at that point, why don’t I just order over the phone? A million facepalms were had. Also despite being called Best Chopsticks, they delivered a plastic spork and fork2, but no chopsticks. MYSTERIES OF THE WORLD.
Because I’m fat and also paranoid about getting trapped at my house over the weekend3, I ordered two different dishes with rice, so I got two fortune cookies.
Half of me feels like this is just referring to my untimely, yet inevitable demise at a murder mystery party of some sort.
The party one is largely correct, as me and my friend from QSA…he and I have standing arrangements for My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic viewing parties most weekends. At the last pony party, we had alcoholic smoothies. I vote smoothies should always be alcoholic from now on.
I’m headed back to school today (in about 13 minutes, precisely), so my nearly full week of snow days has come to an end. I’m partially glad because Friday is QSA day, which I always love, but damn, gotta love unexpected vacations sometimes.
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It’s so mindboggling to me when people have multiple snow days in a row! My first (and only) snow day ever was last year. That was a funny story because they have to cancel by 6am so they did it just to be on the safe side and it snowed like 5 inches so me and my friend went tobogganing in the very regular amount of snow.
You are making me hungry, by the way. I totally want Chinese food now. Although I would probably try to order it from a place with a less confusing method of ordering. :p
Oh man, here, school would so be cancelled with 5 inches of snow. But I live in a state with lots of hills where we rarely get snow (and thus people don’t have cars equipped to handle snow) and the weather likes to do this thing where it heats up just enough to melt, only to freeze into a solid sheet of ice. On all the hills. It’s super awesome fun time. Additionally, a lot of students here live out in the county where it tends to get a looot more snow vs. the Ham. Maple Falls, for example, is right at the foot of Mt. Baker and got buried by like 4 or so feet of snow and thus most students didn’t even bother trying to get out this week. Most still aren’t bothering since they got even more snow last night.
if I was in Seattle, I totally would have, but alas. The Ham has limited options and it was the only place that delivered trashy Chinese food that had decent reviews. :( I just had to suck it up and call, despite my weird phone anxiety, because goddamn I wanted some dayglow red sweet and sour sauce that clearly does not occur naturally. >_>
Also, I am so glad I splurged on the box set before it went out of stock. One of my best friends is dyslexic and prefers to read via audiobooks. That convinced me to get it so I could lend it to her and she could read TFiOS right away too.
Oh yeah P.S. I am so jealous of your TFiOS box set! The postcards Vondell Swain designed are stunning, ahhhh.