So we had some snowfall Friday night and most of Saturday. And that's a bit of an understatement, because we had over a foot of snow. My childhood was spent in Illinois and I spend at least one week every winter in Wisconsin, so no: snow is not that unfamiliar to me even if I have lived in Texas for ten years and here in Virginia we tend to have very mild winters. But it's been a LONG time since I was able to put on a coat, gloves, a hat, and boots and just enjoy walking on fluffy snow, generally feeling like I was trapped in the most amazing snow globe ever. (Background on me: I collected snow globes as a kid. I don't make this statement lightly.) I went sledding with some friends and completely wiped out while sharing a tube with a friend, and as I was flung through the air and rolling around in the snow before finally coming a halt face-down in white, I couldn't help giggling with the kind of overwhelming joy that only comes from pleasing your inner child. My hat hat flown off and was completely soaked, snow had gotten through the crevices of my clothes and adhered to my skin, and within seconds my hair was frozen in chunks by all of the snow in it. And I just didn't care.
The rest of the weekend was spent keeping warm inside and watching movies and appreciating all the white as I slipped from one building to the other any time I had to go outside. Last night I found out that my morning class today would be cancelled, and then after sleeping in this morning I went to get lunch with my roommate, where a friend informed me that my teacher for my afternoon class has cancelled all of her classes for the week.
*Pause for time to step away from laptop and rejoice in the form of a happy dance*
So I unexpectedly have more free time than expected. The only downside is that my poor little car is still buried under a foot of snow, so I can't go into town and sit in Barnes and Noble and drink some coffee while browsing for a good book, which is what I would absolutely love to do right about now.
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