Snow Day!

I thought that after I left high school I was never going to get another snow day.  I guess if I still lived in Minnesota maybe I would have gotten a couple cold days this winter, but I'm an adult now so even that.  In all seriousness, the thought of a snow day today never crossed my mind until I checked my school email.  Then double checked the website and saw the above notice.  Then after that I triple checked by emailing the research assistant for my class this evening and she confirmed.  It's true.  Washington DC has snow days.  Class was cancelled for maybe two inches of snow today, and that's the total accumulation on the ground as of 6:00pm.

So what did I do today?  I caught up on reading for school, wrote a short paper, watched Netflix, goofed around on the web, cooked, and twiddled my thumbs.  I got a bit stir crazy sitting inside so I decided to walk the three blocks to Starbucks.  I got there a little after 4:00pm only to see a sign on the door notifying me they were closing at 5:00pm instead of 8:00pm due to severe weather conditions.

I guess this is the same a multiple definitions of black ice.  There is the Minnesota definition of exhaust frozen on the asphalt so you can't tell if the road is slippery.  Then there is the California definition for when there is light rain and the roads are slick from all the oil beading up on the road.  I'm sure there are other definitions from around the country, but when you grow up in Minnesota a light rain causing black ice or 2 inches of snow causing a snow day just doesn't make sense to me.  A new city, so many new things to learn.