Snow Day

Today was awesome. I got a phone call last night from the photo editor about a story she kindly agreed to write for the first issue of the Accent. At the end of the conversation about the story she mentioned that there was a marketing story on the school's Web site about Friday's classes being canceled. I was pretty happy about it and got even happier a bit later in the evening when I checked my e-mail and saw the real, live proof. I have to say I was a bit amused by the entire thing. There wasn't even half a cm of snow on the ground when I opened my door to check if more snow had fallen since I'd entered my house. Having lived in Alberta and experienced many real snow days (ones that only took place if the temperature was -40 C or lower, which is when a diesel engine quits working and the school buses couldn't run) this Tennessee snow day was a joke. But don't get me wrong. I'll take any day off school than I can get. I'm already sick of this semester, well at least those two classes that I don't really want to be taking. I guess I'm just kind of ready to be done with school for a bit. Oh well, less than four months left.

So on to my day. I spent the entire morning catching up on lost sleep (I know, ridiculous right? Lost sleep less than a week into this semester? Unheard of. Oh well. It happened) and then later on in the afternoon I went over to Jonathan's. He had made me a lunch of bean threads and we ate it when I finally got over there. It was delicious and I was surprised that I've never had that before. Tim was decided that he would provide our dinner entertainment and showed us a 16-minute video called Ticket Validation or maybe just Validation. It was pretty hilarious. Then Jonathan and I had our Christmas, which was awesome. (It's always nice to have a second Christmas, especially when it's on a snow day!) First I sent Jonathan into his bathroom to hide while I conscripted Tim to help me hide Jonathan's presents for a treasure hunt. I made up the treasure hunt before I'd come over so I knew which rooms I wanted to put each present in, but not where in each I wanted to hide them. Tim was a great help and within minutes I told Jonathan he could come out again. Then we had Christmas in January using Tim's little fibre optics Christmas tree. It was tons of fun, especially watching the treasure hunt, which Tim took pictures of. After that we did some reading and then came back over to my place to make supper and listen to a Dr. Ashton sermon from SEYC a few years back. I love listening to Dr. Ashton speak, even if it's not in person. He just has such a great voice and has a lot of knowledge and good things to say. After that was done I wanted to listen to something else so we found Paul Howe's testimony from GYC a week ago and listened to that. It was super good and I was really impressed and quite inspired. And that's how I spent my snow day. How about you?