SNOW DAY!!!
Dec. 15th, 2008 12:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arkratirmaAIPD was canceled today due to the severe weather we're experiencing at the moment. It's 19 degrees (F) outside (not the coldest I've experienced, though I still haven't been in negative degree weather yet!) and extremely windy.
My visit to Aurora's yesterday had to be canceled as well, but, watching the news with Uncle Larry, I felt safer just staying home. There were spin-outs occurring left and right and all Portland metro area highways had a snow chains requirement. There are snow chains in the Buick's trunk, but I've never driven with chains. Something I'm sure I'll learn to do sooner or later.
The power was out from around 11:30 last night to 6:00 this morning, during which time the temperature in the house got to be in the 40s. I was worried about Draco, so after getting up at 1:00 and talking with Aunt Pam a bit, I felt for Grandma Ruthie's blanket in the dark and placed it between Draco's terrarium and the wall to help keep the cold out. He's safe and sound. His head is up, but his eyes are closed. :)
I spent a good ten hours (on and off) yesterday scanning and printing my original work in my Character & Object Design assignment book. Za is offering a 3% raise to our final grade if we replace all the originals with copies and put the digital files on a CD (mine ended up being a DVD, heh). I thought I should go for it. My maquette is practically finished, but could use some more fine detail work.
Creative Writing will not be rescheduled, so it's officially done. As Aurora wrote to me, I'm glad we both read our stories last week; those who did not read will have their grades figured out without the readings.
I'm going to keep checking my student account throughout the day, and get studying for my Anatomy & Movement final (which should still happen on Wednesday). Assuming Character & Object Design isn't rescheduled for tomorrow - by any chance - I have tomorrow off.
And I had scones for breakfast. Mmmm!
I let the Buick run for a while, and I am all the more grateful that I have this car from Grandma and Grandpa. Even though its doors were frozen shut (had to try to gently force them open), it did not struggle to turn over at all, and warmed up quickly. Kickass.
Just a quickish update.
...I wanna go run around in the cold again!
BUT I SHALL REFRAIN UNTIL I GET MORE WORK DONE. XD
Oh, and Aunt Pam told me that a tanker tipped over on 205 early this morning. Eeeesh. Had school not been canceled today, Uncle Larry would have had me carpool with him (which I appreciated a ton).
EDIT: I forgot! Grandma Jo's liver surgery has been rescheduled to tomorrow; she and Grandpa Jeff were able to get in earlier than expected. :) Grandma will be in my prayers tonight.
My visit to Aurora's yesterday had to be canceled as well, but, watching the news with Uncle Larry, I felt safer just staying home. There were spin-outs occurring left and right and all Portland metro area highways had a snow chains requirement. There are snow chains in the Buick's trunk, but I've never driven with chains. Something I'm sure I'll learn to do sooner or later.
The power was out from around 11:30 last night to 6:00 this morning, during which time the temperature in the house got to be in the 40s. I was worried about Draco, so after getting up at 1:00 and talking with Aunt Pam a bit, I felt for Grandma Ruthie's blanket in the dark and placed it between Draco's terrarium and the wall to help keep the cold out. He's safe and sound. His head is up, but his eyes are closed. :)
I spent a good ten hours (on and off) yesterday scanning and printing my original work in my Character & Object Design assignment book. Za is offering a 3% raise to our final grade if we replace all the originals with copies and put the digital files on a CD (mine ended up being a DVD, heh). I thought I should go for it. My maquette is practically finished, but could use some more fine detail work.
Creative Writing will not be rescheduled, so it's officially done. As Aurora wrote to me, I'm glad we both read our stories last week; those who did not read will have their grades figured out without the readings.
I'm going to keep checking my student account throughout the day, and get studying for my Anatomy & Movement final (which should still happen on Wednesday). Assuming Character & Object Design isn't rescheduled for tomorrow - by any chance - I have tomorrow off.
And I had scones for breakfast. Mmmm!
I let the Buick run for a while, and I am all the more grateful that I have this car from Grandma and Grandpa. Even though its doors were frozen shut (had to try to gently force them open), it did not struggle to turn over at all, and warmed up quickly. Kickass.
Just a quickish update.
...I wanna go run around in the cold again!
BUT I SHALL REFRAIN UNTIL I GET MORE WORK DONE. XD
Oh, and Aunt Pam told me that a tanker tipped over on 205 early this morning. Eeeesh. Had school not been canceled today, Uncle Larry would have had me carpool with him (which I appreciated a ton).
EDIT: I forgot! Grandma Jo's liver surgery has been rescheduled to tomorrow; she and Grandpa Jeff were able to get in earlier than expected. :) Grandma will be in my prayers tonight.
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Date: 2008-12-15 11:51 pm (UTC)Yay for extra points! And hopefully you don't have to go to class until Wednesday.
WHAT KIND OF SCONES?
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Date: 2008-12-16 01:35 am (UTC)Hehe, remember when it got down to 12 degrees at my birthday party, 2007? That was pretty awesome!
I sure hope I don't have to go to class until Wednesday.... Thursday and Friday afternoon and night classes were rescheduled to happen on Monday and Tuesday, I think.... (Character & Object Design was a Thursday afternoon class; I would have had that final at 2:45 today.) I guess today's finals could possibly be re-rescheduled to take place on their original days, perhaps? I'll see how it goes.
THEY WERE BLUEBERRY-CRANBERRY SCONES OF EPIC DELICIOUSNESS. OH MY JESUS THEY WERE WONDERFUL. Aunt Pam also picked up little pumpkin cookies with chocolate chips in them. Mmmmmm!
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Date: 2008-12-16 01:44 am (UTC)I do! It was pretty awesome. And then you dad stepped into the bucket of ice and fell into water.
Finals scheduling is just weird, period.
OOOO. NUM NUM NUM. OMG THOSE COOKIES SOUND DIVINE. PUMPKIN. :D
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Date: 2008-12-16 04:24 am (UTC)LOLZ YOU TYPED "YOU DAD"! ...[/meanie] :3
IT IS.
THEY WERE DIVINELY DIVINE. I THINK I'LL HAVE ANOTHER ONE! *fat* XDD
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Date: 2008-12-16 05:46 am (UTC)D: That's not nice, Jill, not nice at all.
WANT. XD
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