Just Not Ready

I'm not ready for this..... the freezing, frigid coldness!! This is what I woke up to this morning:

It was not fun!! I don't know exactly how much snow was on the ground, but there was a pretty good amount!! And it's hard to tell in this picture, but it was snowing like crazy!!

So the drive to work was not fun at all!! Normally it takes me about 15 to 20 mins. to get to work, but today it took me about 50! It felt so much longer than that though!! I have become such a paranoid driver after being rear-ended so many times!! I kept waiting for my car to start sliding!! Luckily it never happened. But.... the winter has just begun!!

The snow continued allllllll day long!! There were only a few times when I looked out the window and it wasn't snowing!! The worst though was after work was over. First off, now that daylight savings time is over, it is very dark when work ends. Well, I go outside and my car is sitting in a little lake. Well, I guess it was more like a pond, but a frozen over pond!! So I had to walk through the FREEZING cold ice water to get to my car..... miserable!! My toes were so cold when I got in the car!! At least the drive home was not as scary as the drive there!!

Something else I am not ready for...... our nation to become Socialist. But, there's not a whole lot that I can do now, but cross my fingers, and maybe build myself a fallout shelter!!

That being said, I do need to say how thrilled I am to have lived through a historic moment. I think it's cool that racial barriers have been broken and we have our first African American president.

And the last thing I am just not ready for, the end of the semester. Now, this does not mean that I want the semester to go on for another 10 weeks (because I am SO ready to be that much closer to graduation), but I still have so much to do before it ends!! I have so many projects, papers, lessons and observations to do in the next 5 weeks!! Somehow it will all get done!! It may mean some all nighters, but I may not have any other choice!!