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[browngirl]

But I just wanted to tell you two things.

Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day makes me happy. Orion was one of a very few constellations I knew as a child; it's one of a very few one can see from the Bronx.

A student who is so growing up to be Joe Isuzu walked up to me and asked if, if he gave me $1800, he could not go to class today. I laughed uproariously for what had to be a good minute.

Remind me to tell you about the , as of last count, 8 kids who called to ask if class were still going on. It's just a snowstorm, people!

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[redbird]

Yes, it's just a snowstorm. But down here in NYC, the weather service's 7 a.m. statement was "travel is strongly discouraged."

There are few things more irritating than slogging through bad weather to work or school, and being sent home in said bad weather because everything is closed. (The time this happened to me it wasn't anyone's fault--the governor closed the state between the time I left home and the time I got to work, about 15 minutes later.)

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Well, in the school's defense, if we *were* closed they'd get a machine message saying so. Also, it's not quite so bad here yet as to discourage travel and all that.

The kids, though, have just been so *funny*, with this breathless "is the school closed?!" hope in their voices. I'm not mocking the idea of being snowed out of school (ha, as if I could with my short fat legs), I'm just amused by the way the kids called me.