Ah, it is hard to yell TGIF with any real zest when you only worked for one day. Owen says there is a chance of an ice storm on Monday...the only reason I wouldn't want it really is that if we miss many more days of school we will probably have our spring break taken away. And I really want to go on a trip during spring break.

Also, I was long term planning for my classes (something I should have done at the beginning of the year) and I had the shocking realization that, as far as the amount of time that I have to teach the objectives that I am supposed to teach, the school year is practically over. I barely have the time to teach what I need to teach as it is. So I am hoping for no real terrible weather.

Also, I wanted to go to this Superbowl party at Owen and Charles' house and considered driving back at night after it and I can't do that if there is freezing rain. Alas, this is one of those things I can do very little about.

Day 9, no smoking. Going fine.  ¶ 9:50 AM

  I can't believe it is already almost the weekend again! This week has been such a bust.

Nothing is happening. I can now get out of the house, which is really nice. I made a delicious stir-fry last night. That's all.

I am now waiting to find out if there is school tomorrow. On my school site there is nothing listed, so I am assuming there is school tomorrow. It will be fun to spend a Friday with a bunch of kids who have been sleeping in and acting wild all week. Hmmm.  ¶ 5:01 PM

  I will have been out of school and entire week if we go back to school on Thursday.

On Sunday, bad weather hit and I barely made it back into Rocky Mount from Chapel Hill alive. Cars all around me were sliding into ditches and Goldie (my cutest car in the world) and I used all of our powers of concentration to stay on the road.

It snowed and then got so cold the roads became ice-skating rinks. So school has been cancelled all week and is still cancelled for tomorrow. The first day of no school was a nice relaxing day, but it has become tedious since then. It would be one thing to have no school when you could actually go places and do things, but I can't leave my house because of the roads. My roomate and I were about to kill each other, but finally tonight she went to stay at her boyfriends house. All for the best.

I have done no work for school and I was feeling pretty bad about that, but now I have a second chance. Since there is no school tomorrow, I will plan for a couple of weeks in advance. That will feel nice. Tonight I will play "The Sims" and relax some more.

I am finally not coughing every three minutes. I am still coughing a bit, but I think that is from the quitting smoking more than anything else. Still no cigarettes (day 5) and I still feel good about it. I even live in an apartment where my roomate and her boyfriend smoke in the house and I am managing. I'm proud of myself.

Hopefully the weather will be better tomorrow and some of this snow will melt. I can't imagine how wild the children will be after four days off to come back on a Friday, but we'll see.  ¶ 7:06 PM