11-10-13
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All those happy faces, all those victories and triumphs.
Why didn't she have anything particularly illuminating to share?
Self-curated superficial sops to someone else's self-esteem. Or whatever.
She knew this, but still wondered.
Damn. Time to get off Facebook.
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Sunday, November 10, 2013
Monday, January 10, 2011
Snow Day
1-10-11
Last night, when Southern canceled classes, I was skeptical. There wasn't anything on the ground, and even though everything was proclaiming what was to befall, I was skeptical. This skepticism comes from the knowledge that school's been canceled in anticipation of an event that didn't actually come to happen before, and from the knowledge that the South has an slightly understandable paranoia of snow. (There's so many of them so unacquainted with it that driving is doubly hazardous.) Still, food flew off the shelves at Wal-Mart and other such places. Me, I did my homework, went to work, and was going about my day when I found out about school being canceled.
Through a friend's status update on Facebook.
Now, friends are known to be sarcastic and/or meanly funny, so I went to Southern's website. No such announcement. I went back to Facebook. Two more status updates, one of which saying, "Go to the website." I went back to the website, and lo! it was there. The announcement had also been released on Twitter; we didn't get an e-mail until this morning. (On a side note, Facebook is trying to take over the world, if it hasn't already.)
So I slept in, if sleeping to 9:20 counts as sleeping in. When I woke up, I was pretty amazed to see the winter wonderland that now existed. We got 7 1/2 to 8 inches, more snow than Chattanooga has seen since 1993. I participated in the epic snowball fight that took place in front of Wright Hall, I ate at the CK with my friends (and got nailed in the face with a snowball), and I got homework done. I have a meeting to go to tonight (one of the very few things that did NOT get canceled), and then, as of now, I still have recitation and lab tomorrow.
Now, based on the amount of friends who are community students who report that they're snowed in, Southern should cancel school again tomorrow. But I'm not holding my breath, since a day of such epic awesomeness rarely comes here in the South, and I have a feeling they're trying not to have a repeat.
But I'll still be paying attention to Facebook, Twitter, the radio, and Southern's main page.
Just in case.
EDIT: I posted this, and then I went to Southern's main page. We have another snow day tomorrow. Squeals of joy could be heard all over the apartment as I told my housemates and then we laughed as we heard people downstairs scream for happiness.
Last night, when Southern canceled classes, I was skeptical. There wasn't anything on the ground, and even though everything was proclaiming what was to befall, I was skeptical. This skepticism comes from the knowledge that school's been canceled in anticipation of an event that didn't actually come to happen before, and from the knowledge that the South has an slightly understandable paranoia of snow. (There's so many of them so unacquainted with it that driving is doubly hazardous.) Still, food flew off the shelves at Wal-Mart and other such places. Me, I did my homework, went to work, and was going about my day when I found out about school being canceled.
Through a friend's status update on Facebook.
Now, friends are known to be sarcastic and/or meanly funny, so I went to Southern's website. No such announcement. I went back to Facebook. Two more status updates, one of which saying, "Go to the website." I went back to the website, and lo! it was there. The announcement had also been released on Twitter; we didn't get an e-mail until this morning. (On a side note, Facebook is trying to take over the world, if it hasn't already.)
So I slept in, if sleeping to 9:20 counts as sleeping in. When I woke up, I was pretty amazed to see the winter wonderland that now existed. We got 7 1/2 to 8 inches, more snow than Chattanooga has seen since 1993. I participated in the epic snowball fight that took place in front of Wright Hall, I ate at the CK with my friends (and got nailed in the face with a snowball), and I got homework done. I have a meeting to go to tonight (one of the very few things that did NOT get canceled), and then, as of now, I still have recitation and lab tomorrow.
Now, based on the amount of friends who are community students who report that they're snowed in, Southern should cancel school again tomorrow. But I'm not holding my breath, since a day of such epic awesomeness rarely comes here in the South, and I have a feeling they're trying not to have a repeat.
But I'll still be paying attention to Facebook, Twitter, the radio, and Southern's main page.
Just in case.
EDIT: I posted this, and then I went to Southern's main page. We have another snow day tomorrow. Squeals of joy could be heard all over the apartment as I told my housemates and then we laughed as we heard people downstairs scream for happiness.
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