I’ve been taking the snow days, hubby’s been taking the sick days.

J’s been sick/achy/unwell for the past three days, today he’s felt better but I was worried about him going back to work because a) the driveway was a SHEET of ice and I knew that would not begin a safe day b) I didn’t want him out in the sleety disgusting cold and getting himself even sicker.

So… we’re home together, it’s been like an extended weekend only plus aches and pains and minus our ability to leave the house.

Ice has set into the area here, and it doesn’t want to leave.

My sad attempt to chip my car out of the frey and go get basic supplies from the grocery store yesterday afternoon convinced me that I would definitely not be making the long-ass commute to campus the next day.

Even when the school didn’t totally cancel classes, I went ahead and knocked out my last two of the day with a pre-cancellation because I didn’t know when I’d be able to leave my house.

It’s 2pm now, and the ice in our driveway/parking lot didn’t break up until about noon. Grah.

So what have I been doing with my time here snuggled into the house with my family? Why, wasting time of course.

I’ve done some blog commenting/marking, I’ve posted the new prompt for the week, I’ve even planned out what we’ll be doing once we get back into the classroom…. but man oh man, there’s so much more I should be doing.

Laundry? Putting away clean clothes upstairs? Dishes? Organizing bills/mail/tax papers? Applying for jobs? Instead I’ve been wandering the web, watching tv or movies, reading books, chatting with friends. Lazy, lazy me.

Tomorrow at 11 we have our meeting with the higher-ups where we’ll officially hear the bullshit of “Um, well, we won’t have enough adjunct positions for all of you next year, and we don’t want to say who we’ll cut until July.. so yeah. Find another job just in case.”

>.<

This makes me want to beat my head through the Writing Department wall in protest. My blood will scream for vengeance. It would make a good movie.

The other frustration of my LIFE today is that my brand new computer already has some “corrupted files” that are preventing my webcam from functioning. Awesome. So guess what I get to do? RE-FUCKING-LOAD EVERYTHING ONTO MY DAMNED COMPUTER. I’m backing up my files now, I’ve been instructed to do a “system restore” which should bring it right back to what it was like when it came out of the box. Lesson learned, I have a feeling my installation of a non-compatible program is what did this… so I’m crossing my fingers that everything will be fine after this.

Oh, and I’ve already downloaded all the application setup files I’ll need (aol instant messenger, firefox, my antiviral/spyware shit, flickr uploader, blah dee blah) so I can just open that file on my revamp and get to steppin. Still, the annoyance factor of this is like, an all-time high with me today. Do you have any idea how fucking long WoW will take to download on this machine? AGAIN? *grumbles to herself*

My observation with C. is coming up on Feb 16th. She’s coming for our visual argument day. I’m a little excited she picked this one, even though the class time she chose was the ONE CLASS that has refused to warm up to me and talk. I think they’re the quintessential hopeless/apathetic class of second semester freshmen, but it’s weird because all of my other classes are live wires. Ah well. I’ll do what I can.

I will admit that I’m going to do a lot of pre-planning on that lesson and I will be giving homework beforehand that will tie into that day. I’m pulling out all the stops, because my fucking job could rest on this one 50 minute session. Damn it all.

I received a package in the mail that held questionnaires on blogging in the classroom from Miss Suzi recently! I’m really excited that my classes can help her with her research project/thesis, and I’m planning on having the students do these questionnaires in class on Friday. (Partly because I’m super-psyched to get them started, and partly because I don’t have a lot more for them to do that day.) If/when I ever get involved in a PhD program, I’ll be studying the role of social networking sites in the Writing classroom, so her study has a special place in my heart.

Hmm, what else can I say about teaching? Oh, I’ve had at least three people talk about giving me doctor’s notes to “excuse” their absences. *facepalm* I’ve sent each of them a note back saying very clearly “THERE IS NO SUCH THING.” My god, people, pay attention. You make me want to hurt you when you’re so stupid.

I think that’s about it. Thanks for letting me vent/ramble, at least it helped me pass time while I transfer over my life in files to my hard drive. Sigh.