Although it's 0 degrees, the house is warmer than it usually is. The snow has blanketed everything - insulating and muffling the outside world.
We got word last night that school would be cancelled. I left a note on my door yesterday cancelling today's office hours (the bug that has been going round finally alit upon me). Jim is also staying home.
But for now, everyone is asleep but me.
In a few minutes, I am going to make tea. Wake up the house with bacon frying. Decide whether it'll be a filipino breakfast or an american one. (Garlic fried rice or pancakes? Tsokolate or coffee?...the boys love tsokolate)
There is work to do.
There is always work to do.
But for today, let us enjoy solitude, bread and chocolate.
*Tsokolate - basically, mainlined hot liquid chocolate. I cheat. No egg yolks, or milk, just boiling water and the addition of dark chocolate chips, stirred and melted. Salty crusty bread is dipped into the concoction.
Posted by weez at January 15, 2004 07:46 AM | TrackBackIf you make Tsokolate, you think you could ship over an extra batch, still hot?
Enjoy your 'day off' ...
Posted by: Jason at January 15, 2004 09:31 AMOoooooo....I'm *so* jealous!
Boys are home today with Gerald. Me, I dragged myself onto campus for an 8am lecture. No interpreter, so I let the deaf students meet in their project group while I did a 1 hour lecture. Then an unexpected replacement showed up at 9, so I did the lecture *again*. <sigh>
Now I'm in my office, drinking coffee, wishing for tsokolate, and wishing I was home in front of the fireplace. :/
Posted by: LIz at January 15, 2004 10:52 AMCould we push for a quarterly "gripe" day, where everyone just takes the day off and vents about everything going on? I could definitely use a day off right now myself - things are really beginning to get out of control.
Posted by: Carlo at January 15, 2004 06:34 PMWhen I had a job that allowed for sick days...professor not being one. There were times where there was a definite "mental health" day. Sickness takes on all kinds of forms, and a sickness of the soul or heart can be as debilitating as the flu.
Posted by: weez at January 15, 2004 06:47 PMOn the other hand I knew a guy years back who professed that if we had Sick Days we should also have Well Days. His theory was that if we could call in to say we were too sick to come to work we should also be able to call in and say we were too well to come to work.
He's also the guy who taught me how to brew beer. Wise man.
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Posted by: fivecats at January 16, 2004 09:59 AM