My joy at the snow day today was mitigated somewhat by the fact that the automated alert program at my university waited until 6:11 AM to call and tell me about it. So while I was grateful to hear the news, I was annoyed that I was now wide awake nineteen minutes before I would have been if I’d adhered to the original plan of teaching this morning. So I stayed in bed for an excruciating forty more minutes, thinking about getting up and having breakfast and emailing students and planning my day, until I actually got up and did those things.
So my day consists of working on my thesis as long as possible at all costs. To commence at 9:00 AM after I have the world’s longest, hottest shower and one or possibly two cups of tea. Operation Thesis Guilt will be in effect until 4:00 PM, at which time I plan to give up and read more of Mary Doria Russell’s The Sparrow. But if I genuinely work on the thesis even most of that time, I will have gained a lot of ground toward finishing my preface by February 15.
Strangely, it does not appear to be snowing right now. The roads appear white, but not the ground.
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