Crazy Kansas Weather

So. Cold.

Blowing snow and wind chills well below zero + not-so-great insulation = COLD Jules & Sugar. 

And I'm supposed to fly north tomorrow???

1st Snows

The rain from the hurricane down south hit us yesterday, but winter really began today when that rain turned to snow.  It was pretty messy this afternoon when the precipitation was 'wintry mix'.  Not a fun walk home, that's for sure.  Now, the snow has returned, and even though it's not sticking to the roads yet all the cars are covered.  I guess November decided to be a winter month instead of a fall month!

a glinting foot

of SNOW!!  We got about 12 inches yesterday, though it is hard to tell since they've been scraping and plowing all day.

I'm excited to walk around in it today, even though it's still super cold.  Volleyball class got cancelled, but at this point I've still got Abnormal Psych.  and work.  Ah yes, work.  I feel like I might as well live there these days, I'm there so much!  In fact, I have some students asking me that :)

I'm off to a pretty good start to the semester.  I love having only a few hours of class a week, even though I'm constantly working on my theses in every spare moment.  I'm honestly more than a little nervous about my Honor Scholar one....

25 Below

It is COLD.  I don't think I've ever been in wind chills this cold.  And I know it's even worse north of here!  I have to keep the space heater cranked up just to keep my room above freezing!  I think it's supposed to warm up tomorrow.  I hope so.  I'm running out of clean clothes, wearing so many layers!

Driving up on Wednesday, my car got FILTHY!!  I drove into and through at least one snowstorm, and when I got to school the roads weren't plowed.

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It was clean when I left!  And now my windshield wiper fluid is frozen :( so I guess it'll stay dirty a little longer...

Back at School

Wind chills below zero shouldn't be allowed.  At least when there's little-to-no insulation in your room.  Ugh.  I have a space heater, but it can only do so much against single-digit temps and negative wind chills.  Thankfully the snow is pretty! :)  Unfortunately my bike sat out in it for the past month, and is still covered now.  I guess I'll be doing a bit of greasing in a few days.

End of Semester

Classes are finished.  Finally.  I'm one final, one grad school application, one paper, and one brief meeting away from winter break.  Two weeks (plus more I hope) of freedom from 67-page theses and demanding professors.  Granted, I do have to read and do some work over the break, but that doesn't seem nearly so awful compared to what I've done in the last 1.5 weeks.  I just hope my GPA reflects the ridiculous amount of work and stress I've been through.

I think I've done well this semester.  It's hard to believe it's my last fall semester as an undergraduate.  I just hope I'll have some fall semesters as a graduate student.  I won't know for a few months, though.  I'm planning on finishing up the last 6 applications over break.  The applications themselves aren't so bad.  It's the application fees and ETS's score-reporting fees that are killing me.  Oh well, college students are supposed to be poor, right?

I feel like I've been on a rollercoaster this semester, both academically and emotionally.  There were several times I didn't think I'd make it.  Yet here I am.

We've already had several days of snow here, though nothing too deep.  I'm kinda sad I'll be going away from the snow on Thursday, but I'd much rather see Max & Sugar!  Plus, there are times when Indiana is a bit too far north for my liking.  At least in Kentucky no one makes fun of the way I talk! :)