As much as I would love to go home right now and spend the rest of the day making a snowman with my kids, the price to pay for a half day of bliss right now is 16 weeks of intermittent pain and irritation.
"I know we're supposed to have our keys to do the labs and stuff, but remember on check-in day when it snowed? And then my dog had to get a flea dip the next week, [using the power of hind sight] I deliberately scheduled that for week 2 because [using the power of hind sight] I knew that check in was super important, but it snowed, so I missed when everyone checked in, and I've just been reaching through my lab partner's box to get the stuff in my own box, but now she's out too so I really need a key.."
"I know my friend Suzy said that the syllabus has the test days, but remember when you ran out of copies on the first day because there were 27 people who registered on time and I just showed up and tried to register later? And how you were going to bring me one on the second day? Remember how it snowed that day? So I didn't know we had a test last week or I would have gotten my nails done another day so I can have a makeup, right? Because I didn't know. Because it snowed."
"I know the final is tomorrow, but remember that time it snowed?..."
I was lying, but I didn't know it until the "Classes will be cancelled starting 1 minute after Professor Wombat's class finishes" e-mail came in, when I realized I REALLY want to go home.
ReplyDeleteOh, they are deliberately torturing me... "Update: The closing will extend until 1 minute before Professor Wombat's class tomorrow."
ReplyDeleteI've got a somewhat similar scenario, except the second class meeting is tomorrow morning, and I suspect we may have a delayed opening. I told them in class yesterday that if we have a snow day I'll try to substitute an online activity and keep going; they may be about to find out that I meant it. The only upside: the class most likely to be affected is the one to which I gave a list of "key dates" on the syllabus in lieu of a full calendar. Since I haven't really settled on exactly what I'll be doing when after about week 3, at least I won't be losing a lot of work if I have to reshuffle things.
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