It's been a very long day for me. I started off by waking up a bit earlier than I would have liked because I wasn't sure how bad the roads were going to be here or how long it would take to clean off my car. And of course, Penn State doesn't cancel or have a two-hour delay, while every school within a 100-mile radius (OK, I may be exaggerating a little here) was either closed or delayed. It's not like I'm not used to it, though. My high school and the neighboring town's high school were notorious for never closing. It took a lot to actually shut the school down. And then there was Roncalli, which would close if they saw that there was going to be a chance of flurries. Again, I exaggerate, but not by a whole lot.
Then today I was kept busy with reading a paper that I have to present on Thursday, studying for the candidacy exam, and having students come in to office hours. Then there was lab, in which a surprising number of people stuck around for, considering we were done with official business by about 4:10. A good number actually stayed the entire time, until 5:30. After that I went to get my car from the BJC to move it to Walker's parking lot, went to grab some food, and then went to the last home men's gymnastics meet of the season. It was actually a very exciting meet, because it was international. We hosted the men's team from Japan. Quite impressive, I must say. And I got a free t-shirt. After going to all the gymnastics meets and numerous women's basketball games, I finally came away with a free shirt!
Well, spring break is in a few days for me. I'm really looking forward to getting the hell out of State College for a while. It's a nice town, but it can be a bit stifling. The first part of spring break I'm going to visit Ingrid in Uniontown. We'll probably go to Pittsburgh on Saturday and either go to the zoo or to a museum. Then on Sunday I'm traveling back to good ol' Wisconsin. Not your typical spring break destination, but there you go. I want to go visit my family again before summer. I'll be spending about a week back home, which will be incredibly nice. I also look forward to relaxing a good bit. I seem to be running dangerously low on energy lately. It's hard work to keep going because I always have stuff to do. And then there's the very good chance that I will catch whatever bug is going around the meteo department lately. I'm very tempted to go buy a can of Lysol and fumigate my apartment, since both my roomies have been sick relatively recently. As long as I am healthy enough to drive home and get back here I don't really care if I get sick. Hopefully, my body will listen to me. I don't want to have to spend spring break like I did last year, feeling horribly sick the entire week I had off.
I was just thinking recently about a previous entry I had made. It concerned seeing a robin near the end of January or the beginning of February. I think it must have been extremely confused. Either that, or spring may just have been making a cameo appearance, or winter was taking a brief holiday. Who knows?
Well, on that note, I think I'm off to bed. Tomorrow's an ungodly early day. And I'm exhausted.
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