Snow Days?!

That's right my friends. The weather in South Dakota is the most unpredictable I have seen in my many years. We go from weekends of 0 degree weather with light snow to 60-65 degrees by Wednesday. The wind out here is quite strong and persistent and makes any snow storm into blizzard because of the white out conditions. Monday night we were hit with some hail, thunderstorms, and a tornado warning since it was 60 degrees and it was to drop to 10 degrees. Luckily there was no tornado, but then the snow came and with the cold temperature and sleet, it all froze an inch or two thick on the ground. Thus transportation was dangerous and unreliable and school was called off.

As I was taking my day off to slack off by having a big brunch with friends, watch my Phillies World Series DVD (thanks Santa), have a bunch of people over to indulge in Taco Tuesday, I found out that the next day would be off too (that ice isn't going any where).

And that brings you up to date. Today I have promised myself to be more productive. I will finish my rough draft for Take One! which the school district is having us complete for some professional development. It consists of a 15 minute video and a 13 page paper. All in all, it actually is not that helpful in reflecting on my teaching since they have such specific requirements for the taping that it makes it feel trite and simulated. But, we get paid a good amount of money to finish this first step towards to National Board Certification. So, time to suck it up and finish this paper and get it sent in before 4/15. (Look at me, trying to get done even before April... yeah!)

I bought a ping pong table about a month ago and it has gotten some great use so far. My house mate Dylan is quite good at the sport and it has pushed me to become better and better. Other friends have come over to play and really enjoyed it as well. Nothing better on a day off from school then to have a hot chocolate and play some intense ping pong. And reliving the Phillies becoming World Champions.

Now hoping a year from now that I will be watching a Flyers DVD with them becoming Stanley Cup Champions on my Snow Day...