When roads ice, everyone who doesn’t have some pressing matter to attend to spends the rest of the day holed up in their house because Driving On Ice Is Bad And No One Can Do It. The people who are brave enough to venture outside drive under the speed limit to make up for those more brave denizens… and the latter of those two are the ones who always make it onto the news for hydroplaning their vehicles, which only makes more people want to hole themselves up inside until the ice storm has passed. It’s a vicious cycle. The same can also be said for snow days, which we admittedly don’t get very much of here in central Texas. As a matter of fact, the last actual snow day that we had was in late February of this year — schools began closing down left and right as soon as the snow started sticking to the ground, even the colleges!

Today was relatively tame compared to those, though. And by tame, I mean a lot of the roads in this area were either flooded or in the process of flooding. Luckily for me, I didn’t see any wrecks on the way to school this morning or on the way back later on this afternoon… but getting across campus proved to be somewhat frustrating because it was really pouring, and I had somehow managed to forget my umbrella in the process. Luckily for me, Matt walked me from the student center to the academic building. But since we only start classes at the same time on Mondays and Wednesdays, I was left to fend for myself after History of Religions I got out. By “fend for myself”, I mean rush to the bookstore to see if they had any TI-84 calculators — they didn’t — and then rush back to the academic building to get picked up by my father.

By the time all of that was done, I was waterlogged up to my knees.