Continuing last night’s theme of sludgy weather, today the university had a 2-hour delay on classes, which is the first break from a regular school day due to weather that I’ve experienced at UK. I was happy to hear the news that my first class was cancelled, so I got to reset my alarm clock and go back to sleep. The extra sleep left me with a headache that has lasted most of the day, unfortunately; that often happens to me if I change my sleeping schedule to allow for more sleep. Does anyone else have this problem? I have no idea why it happens.

Anywho, getting to class today was a real workout because I slipped and slid around trying to get anywhere. A lot of sidewalks were scraped clean, but others were not, so I scrabbled around in my rain boots trying to find purchase. The world was gray today: gray sky, dirty gray snow on the ground, rain falling to turn the snow into slush… Ugh. It really wasn’t that cold, surprisingly, though the rain made being outside unpleasant. I think it’s supposed to rain more tonight and then freeze, leaving wonderful driving conditions… Yikes.

I ended up with a sore bottom today after falling in the library. I was going down some big marble stairs, which are unfortunately devoid of treads, when my boots slipped and down I went. I grabbed hold of the railing to slow my fall, but I only fell down about three steps before landing on my butt. Of course the first thing I did after getting over my surprise was to look about sheepishly, seeing if anyone had seen me fall; nope, I was in the clear. I was happy to have fallen indoors rather than out in the slush around campus.