Snow Storm Epilogue

My roomate, steve-o, recently acquired a camcorder from costco which we used throughout the entire week-long of shenanigans that followed this snow storm. If you watch closely you can see how we slowly get more and more out of hand throughout the first few days as my last two posts describe. This was because we all had just finished our semesters for the most part, and we could be out running the streets like the rest of the people, but we had to get ready to student teach, which is more stressful than finals could ever be. So the fact that we had no student teaching for a couple days because of the snow storm sent us a little crazy. The fact that there were no people or police or anything on the streets around us because of this snow storm only allowed us to spread this momentary cathartic release from the inside of our house, to the greater metropolitan area. In fact my roomates and I, along with the two or three other people living in our house realized that we may have been spending too much time acting like 8th graders and we scheduled personal time or 'pt' to get our own stuff together and get time apart before concluding the snow day at a bar.

The next day we all went off to school, except for cambridge who had a snow day, through horrible weather. The roads weren't plowed, buses were running behind schedule or not at all. Somehow I didn't realize that the snow would imply bad roads and traffic as I wound up an hour late at school (I wasn't teaching so it was cool). However some school sites were not even plowed making so some people still had delays once they reached school grounds. The superintendent of BPS realized he made a mistake and announced on the five o'clock news that there would be no school for the rest of the week.

In a weird combination of elation and stress I planned what I was going to do for the rest of the week with the crew of people I spent the first chunk of this week with. We knew something big had to go down since running around outside was getting played out. We even went to bed early to get a good nights sleep for the day of procrastinating that we had planned. The next morning four of us went to New Hampshire and went Ice Climbing up this frozen waterfall looking wall of ice. We came back and 20 of us ran up a 200 bill at this bar in town before we left to go the dj spot down the street.

The next three days was spent trying to do homework and what not. The cool thing was that Cambridge wasn't ticketing people for parking, the bad thing was that there were no spots unplowed making parking a dangerous endeavor. Plus there was snow everywhere so driving everywhere has slowed to a crawl. I spent four hours on sunday waiting for the traffic to die down in a costco parking lot (steve-o returning his camera) because they did not plow all the lanes of the exit. I got my bookbag out of my car and walked to the panera bread next to these giant snow piles that are not going anywhere for a few months and started digging through the piles of work that I had stacked up in the previous week.