ZOMG SNOW!

Growing up in the south, we didn't get a lot of snow. Probably about once every two years, we got like an inch of snow, that was it. And yet at least six times every winter between November and February, the weatherman on WMC-TV would show some graph outlining the next five days and there would be all these warnings. SNOW! BLIZZARD! OMG FLURRIES! WTF ICE WATCH! AHHHH DEATH IMMINENT! and everyone would freak the fuck out.

Then the week would come and go and no snow would stick to the ground and I'd be left in utter disappointment. Dreams of skipping school, building snowmen, slurping snow slushies and frolicking in fresh powder, down the fucking drain. Everyone would be like "oh that's weird, I can't believe it didn't snow!" and go back to their lives. Then the whole thing would happen again 3 weeks later. Just winter after winter of extreme build-up followed by terrible let-down.

Dangling the possibility of a snow day in front of a child year after year can really take its toll. So naturally, I try to act all jaded whenever I hear warnings of pending snow doom. I tell myself the exact thing every time I hear "heavy snowstorms" are on the way. "Yeah sure - I'm sure it'll be like 4 inches and everything will be normal." I go around all day the day before its supposed to snow and tell everyone how I'm not worried at all. But no matter how jaded I act, the moment the first flakes start to fall every negative thought drops and I'm stuck in BLIZZARD! mode. So you can imagine when I went to sleep last night how fucking stoked I was to wake up with a foot of snow on the ground, skip work today and not do shit.

And you can imagine how fucking LIVID I was this morning when I awoke, ran to the window like a stupid 8 year old, and saw like 4 inches of snow on the ground. What the SHIT. Streets - cleared. Subways - running. Work - NOT CANCELED. I even sat around refreshing my work email in the hopes some miracle email would rush through at with glorious news of sudden cancellation. Nope. Regular fucking Wednesday.