Snow Day? No. 180? Yes.
This Day woke up and said, "I don't think I'll go to work today. I think I might do some crack and take a tour of hell." Carroll is an insane asylum. Here's why.
7:10 Pull out of driveway 10 minutes late.
7:14 Do a 180 on Lowerbellbrook not too far from my house.(Scary as hell...I didn't cause it by slamming my brakes or hitting the gas or turning or anything...all of sudden I was slowly turning clockwise, praying "God don't let me hit that telephone pole...thanks...please don't let me get stuck in that ditch...wow THANK YOU LORD." Miracle #1) My sister wants to go home, I don't. I go back to the side street and turn around.
7:15 Find WHIO on the radio and listen to delays. No closings yet.
7:22 Decide to take back streets instead of 35; think I might make it to school on time (about 7:40)
7:30 Piqua and Troy are only closings. The roads are insane. I'm just about in Kettering.
7:40 Xenia closes. Damn. Road are horrible, worst I've ever driven.
7:50 Beavercreek closes, maybe earlier, not sure.
8:00 Pull into one of only a few Senior Parking spots left, hell yeah. Seniors are yelling at kids to go home so school will be canceled.
8:05 Get to locker. Lara is upset due to traumatic driving experiences.
8:07 Walk in on snowball fight IN the bandroom.
8:13 Girls do tables.
8:15 Do AP Calculus review for test and organize binder. Only about 6 kids are missing from band. Once again, section leaders count.
9:03 Homeroom. 2/3 of seniors in my homeroom are nonexistant. Find out Fairborn is closed. That's three districts. Kids all over are freaking about how the roads are horrible and we should be going home and we should get an early dismissal before lunch because the roads are SO BAD.
9:15 Library for music theory. More calculus for the test and binder check I have today.
10:13 It's snowing huge flakes outside. Carazy. I feel like crap because I am blowing my over-dried out nose and coughing and I'm probably just spreading disease... but I hate getting behind in school. Kids are calling home on their cells to get their parents to get them out of class. A lot of parents are. Billy gets called out of class... to see a counselor. Ouch.
5th period: I am starting to get worried I won't be ready for the binder check. Mr. Hemmert is showing some slow media slideshowish thing about Kennedy. I fall asleep a couple of times. The whole class is there. I love AP kids.
10 minutes before lunch: I read ahead in the presentation packet and lay my head down, giving up. Kids are distracted, tired, and sleeping. All day I have been joking with Kondwani and Katy that it will end up like the Chinchilla Story* because the roads are awful and Mr. Wally said they aren't closing early due to busing conditions. I told other folks about the getting snowed in of the Chinchilla story and they think I'm delirious due to my cold, and think I should be at home.
1 minute later: "Can you please send Diane Buchwalder to the office with her books?" (Miracle #1.5--read on why it's not a whole one.) HOLY HELL. I can't go home. I didn't call anyone! Is my mom really that worried? I have a test to take! AN AP 2 DAY TEST! NOOOO! Other kids are grumbling or cheering... I kind of helf smile and sniffle my way out...
So here I am at home. Laura had called Dad... she and Savannah are at Savannah's house. Here's why I fell weird:
PRO: I don't have to take the AP test and have time tonight to finish organizing my binder, which needs a lot of work. This is good for my grade.
CON: HELLO...I'm slightly paranoid and an AP student! I'm missing a test...apparently Dr. Carter is angry that kids are leaving...I feel extremely guilty. But since my dad called and request we be sent home, I kind of couldn't say no.
PRO: The roads are a little better due to the fact that the huge snow warmed to rain and is clearing the roads; however, it will probably freeze later and the roads are still shit on the country roads by my house.
So techinically the pros outweigh the cons, but my paranoia is leaving me with a huge guilt complex and I haven't eaten lunch and I'm a really bad procrastinator...so...here I am.
Not crazy, though, eh? I don't think I can express how hyped up everyone was discussing whether they could call their parents or when we'd be sent home. my gradeschool music teacher would always predict snow when the class was hyper. Let me tell you, these kids are hyper. No one is focused... I mean, for God's sake there was a snowball fight in the band room! Well, I take it it was in the band room. It happened before I got there and there was snow all over, but it looked like someone just threw one from outside and MattE was the only one wet because he walked in on it or something. By the way, he came very close to hitting a house this morning. A lot of people were traumatized by their cars fishtailing. As was I. That's why we shouldn't have had school this morning. Ok, after this tangent, back on topic-- I hope the other AP kids get sent home or school gets out early due to all the other kids going home because I hate being behind and they really wanted to go home. Argh.
Pat thinks the FSM is probably the best one to pray to to get out of school, because that's the kind of thing he would do. The other gods would want you to be learning. Except Zeus might let you out of school if you told him you were going to a whorehouse, and then he'd join you. I mean, he'd go to the whorehouse with you. Or he'd help raid the villages and rape the women in honor of the FSM or something.
So I hear we're pretty much the only school open right now. SEND THEM HOME! Stupid road conditions and school cancellings.
*By the way, the Chinchilla story involved the school getting snowed in and students spending the night. Then mutant chinchillas took over the school, while Jess Webb, Katy Pitstick, Kondwani Harawa, and Rachel Mitsoff and I fought them off with the help of Kondwani's trained squirrels and the swords we found in the cupboard of the Home Ec room after the issues we encountered in the band room. We kind of never wrote any more of it because Sophomore year ended and Junior year was really busy, but I think we should. We were trading off every chapter, and it was insane. Between that and Da Chicken and the Notebook in chemistry that year, it was awesomeness. Speaking of, I want to read more Da Chicken! And I also need to get the pictures when we RPed...ourselves... last year for the Winter Dance, which is lame and probably not happening this year, I'm guessing. Hopefully in January? Ok, I guess I'm just ranting but it's pretty funny.
7:10 Pull out of driveway 10 minutes late.
7:14 Do a 180 on Lowerbellbrook not too far from my house.(Scary as hell...I didn't cause it by slamming my brakes or hitting the gas or turning or anything...all of sudden I was slowly turning clockwise, praying "God don't let me hit that telephone pole...thanks...please don't let me get stuck in that ditch...wow THANK YOU LORD." Miracle #1) My sister wants to go home, I don't. I go back to the side street and turn around.
7:15 Find WHIO on the radio and listen to delays. No closings yet.
7:22 Decide to take back streets instead of 35; think I might make it to school on time (about 7:40)
7:30 Piqua and Troy are only closings. The roads are insane. I'm just about in Kettering.
7:40 Xenia closes. Damn. Road are horrible, worst I've ever driven.
7:50 Beavercreek closes, maybe earlier, not sure.
8:00 Pull into one of only a few Senior Parking spots left, hell yeah. Seniors are yelling at kids to go home so school will be canceled.
8:05 Get to locker. Lara is upset due to traumatic driving experiences.
8:07 Walk in on snowball fight IN the bandroom.
8:13 Girls do tables.
8:15 Do AP Calculus review for test and organize binder. Only about 6 kids are missing from band. Once again, section leaders count.
9:03 Homeroom. 2/3 of seniors in my homeroom are nonexistant. Find out Fairborn is closed. That's three districts. Kids all over are freaking about how the roads are horrible and we should be going home and we should get an early dismissal before lunch because the roads are SO BAD.
9:15 Library for music theory. More calculus for the test and binder check I have today.
10:13 It's snowing huge flakes outside. Carazy. I feel like crap because I am blowing my over-dried out nose and coughing and I'm probably just spreading disease... but I hate getting behind in school. Kids are calling home on their cells to get their parents to get them out of class. A lot of parents are. Billy gets called out of class... to see a counselor. Ouch.
5th period: I am starting to get worried I won't be ready for the binder check. Mr. Hemmert is showing some slow media slideshowish thing about Kennedy. I fall asleep a couple of times. The whole class is there. I love AP kids.
10 minutes before lunch: I read ahead in the presentation packet and lay my head down, giving up. Kids are distracted, tired, and sleeping. All day I have been joking with Kondwani and Katy that it will end up like the Chinchilla Story* because the roads are awful and Mr. Wally said they aren't closing early due to busing conditions. I told other folks about the getting snowed in of the Chinchilla story and they think I'm delirious due to my cold, and think I should be at home.
1 minute later: "Can you please send Diane Buchwalder to the office with her books?" (Miracle #1.5--read on why it's not a whole one.) HOLY HELL. I can't go home. I didn't call anyone! Is my mom really that worried? I have a test to take! AN AP 2 DAY TEST! NOOOO! Other kids are grumbling or cheering... I kind of helf smile and sniffle my way out...
So here I am at home. Laura had called Dad... she and Savannah are at Savannah's house. Here's why I fell weird:
PRO: I don't have to take the AP test and have time tonight to finish organizing my binder, which needs a lot of work. This is good for my grade.
CON: HELLO...I'm slightly paranoid and an AP student! I'm missing a test...apparently Dr. Carter is angry that kids are leaving...I feel extremely guilty. But since my dad called and request we be sent home, I kind of couldn't say no.
PRO: The roads are a little better due to the fact that the huge snow warmed to rain and is clearing the roads; however, it will probably freeze later and the roads are still shit on the country roads by my house.
So techinically the pros outweigh the cons, but my paranoia is leaving me with a huge guilt complex and I haven't eaten lunch and I'm a really bad procrastinator...so...here I am.
Not crazy, though, eh? I don't think I can express how hyped up everyone was discussing whether they could call their parents or when we'd be sent home. my gradeschool music teacher would always predict snow when the class was hyper. Let me tell you, these kids are hyper. No one is focused... I mean, for God's sake there was a snowball fight in the band room! Well, I take it it was in the band room. It happened before I got there and there was snow all over, but it looked like someone just threw one from outside and MattE was the only one wet because he walked in on it or something. By the way, he came very close to hitting a house this morning. A lot of people were traumatized by their cars fishtailing. As was I. That's why we shouldn't have had school this morning. Ok, after this tangent, back on topic-- I hope the other AP kids get sent home or school gets out early due to all the other kids going home because I hate being behind and they really wanted to go home. Argh.
Pat thinks the FSM is probably the best one to pray to to get out of school, because that's the kind of thing he would do. The other gods would want you to be learning. Except Zeus might let you out of school if you told him you were going to a whorehouse, and then he'd join you. I mean, he'd go to the whorehouse with you. Or he'd help raid the villages and rape the women in honor of the FSM or something.
So I hear we're pretty much the only school open right now. SEND THEM HOME! Stupid road conditions and school cancellings.
*By the way, the Chinchilla story involved the school getting snowed in and students spending the night. Then mutant chinchillas took over the school, while Jess Webb, Katy Pitstick, Kondwani Harawa, and Rachel Mitsoff and I fought them off with the help of Kondwani's trained squirrels and the swords we found in the cupboard of the Home Ec room after the issues we encountered in the band room. We kind of never wrote any more of it because Sophomore year ended and Junior year was really busy, but I think we should. We were trading off every chapter, and it was insane. Between that and Da Chicken and the Notebook in chemistry that year, it was awesomeness. Speaking of, I want to read more Da Chicken! And I also need to get the pictures when we RPed...ourselves... last year for the Winter Dance, which is lame and probably not happening this year, I'm guessing. Hopefully in January? Ok, I guess I'm just ranting but it's pretty funny.