Snow. In October. *blank look* Snow.

[icarus]

It's supposed tomorrow. Not flurries, like might see in Michigan around, say, November 15th. But total, all-out, full-blown, three to five inches of snow.

In October.

And I work tomorrow. With all the kids' college applications essays due November 1. Or maybe not, if the snow's bad enough.

Have a vignette from work:

I was in a session with a 12th grader who whinged, "Can't I read something easier?" when I assigned him Frankenstein.

"Sure!" I said.

I got up, marched across the room and fetched him Dr. Seuss.

"Yeah!" he said, and started reading it aloud. "Left foot, right foot...."

Foiled!

"Noooo!" I said. "I was kidddddinnnnng!" But he held onto the book and kept reading. Laughing, I managed to pull the book out of his hands.

And he still has to read Frankenstein. (Okay, I might relent and let him read The Three Musketeers instead.)

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[cat_77]

Yeah, a couple people at work were freaking out about the snow forecasts and I had to remind them a) you live in MN, and b) The Halloween Blizzard. When two people mentioned how young they were then, I felt old as our neighbors' wedding was the next day and I took care of, got ready, and almost drove their toddler to the church for them (my mother intervened as she thought her car was safer for a toddler than a beat up old Chevy driven by a 16 year old).

Mix that with surviving the huge snowfalls of the past two years, and any MN native should be good to go. Which means, of course, everyone will freak out and there will be tons of accidents again. *head desk*