Remember snow days?

Those were great.

You'd wake up in the morning completely willingly and run to the living room to see Mom sitting there in the dim glow of the television watching the news for the closings. And when she announced that there'd be no school, or even that there'd be a delay, we'd run to the basement to put on our snow stuff, still in our PJs and without any breakfast, and run outside to play in the snow till lunch. How I miss those days.

Now, you wake up with your college roommates and check your computer for an email from the University saying that there'll be no classes all day. Still, you're excited, but not nearly as much--you also get the emails from professors assigning extra homework since clearly you have nothing to do all day except loads of extra homework. And places like work don't show up on the WTNH closings so you still have that to crawl through the snow and ice to mess up your afternoon and get there. And for goodness sakes you can't even go sledding.

Or, you can just put off all your homework till 10 o'clock at night and lay in your PJs with your roommates and watch episode upon episode of library-rented Sex and the City.

Yes, I think I like these snow days. . .