The pointless ramblings and obscure humor of an over-worked, off-beat, performer-writer-teacher.

 

Snowed In

Do you remember those days from your childhood when you had a “snow day”?  Even my cousins in Southern California occasionally had one.  Well, today the northern half of New Mexico had a snow day.  Schools were closed; businesses were closed; highways were closed – all the way from Albuquerque to the Colorado border north and Texas border east.  It was the worst storm we had this winter – the worst storm I’ve seen here in Albuquerque for the seven years I’ve lived here.  It was unexpected – not the storm itself, but the severity.  And the worst part of it was, being an Idaho boy who use to this kind of thing, driving behind the New Mexico drivers who aren’t use to this kind of thing.  They are more dangerous than the snow.

 

 

So we stayed home and inside today where it was warm and safe – unless of course one of those drivers drove through our front wall. (It’s been known to happen in this state – usually done by some drunk public official, but that’s another topic.)  My feet are cold.  I’m stressed out because grades are due and our students have had weeks of abbreviated schedules and half days for state-mandated “testing,” wrestling and basketball tournaments, and now two days of being snowed-in.  (I’m sure that last sentence was structured and punctuated incorrectly, but I’m too tired to car.)  So I decided it was time to blog.  I’ve redone my blog – felt I wanted it more streamlined, less (I don’t know) four colored comic.  And with the new look, I needed a new entry.

 

 

I was going to write about the kids, but today’s topic kind of took a turn.  I guess they’ll be tomorrow’s topic or, with my present rate of blogging, next quarter’s topic.

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