Snow Day!

Weekly Musings © – “Snow Day”

It’s a cold sunny day in early December. The students remind me of quantum particles or theoretical strings vibrating too quickly and in too many directions. Soon St. Nicholas will be here and the school will release these energized particles on their overworked parents. But, still there are 6 days left before the break, and so there is one dream that remains to be fulfilled before the great prison break; a snow day.

For eleven years I worked in industry before moving to academia and during that time of aggressive goals, bonus checks, and potential layoffs the one great hole in my work life was the small chance of a free day due to semi-solid water, captured in fractal elegance, dancing from the heavens; snow.

Tomorrow is the first snow day of the year. And while I will be busy pulling out my remaining hair while working on a Linear Algebra take-home final, there will still be hot chocolate, a warm gray sweater (yes, with the leather elbow patches), and hopefully a chance to stand with my beautiful wife and watch our daughter sled down the little hill (all by her big self).