"Nein, das ist keine Banane. Das ist eine Wassermelone."

[gogmagog]

Christ, the weather here's been crazy lately. It snowed all day yesterday, with quite a bit of accumulation, and then this morning it had warmed up quite a bit and was raining hard. This of course meant slogging through ankle-deep slush all the way in to campus only to find that my morning seminar was cancelled (a sick prof).

Didn't bother me too much, though...I rarely complain when class is cancelled, heh. So instead of sitting around and discussing Lydgate, I went to Wal-Mart with lordtravis and bought printer paper and individual-serving store-brand Kool-Aid, and then he dropped me at home. I had a peaceful lunch, then came back into campus for my Rhetoric class. I think it went well, and discussion went well, which is nice - this class in general is pretty good at discussion; it's not as close to pulling teeth as discussion with some of my past classes have been.

I feel weird, though...this semester I've been trying to dress up a little more on most of the days when I teach, and this resulted today in wearing a white dress shirt under a new blue pullover with jeans. It feels very strange to be dressed like a Young Republican (well, as Travis pointed out, a true Young Republican would have worn khakis), but I did somehow feel like I had a bit more authority. We'll see how the nice-dressing policy continues to work, or if it does; I somehow have a feeling by finals week I'll be considering myself lucky if I show up showered, shaven, and in clean clothes, all issues of formality and informality in dress thrown to the wind (with my sanity).

Now my post-class office hours are over and I'm sitting in my office, working on the homework for my German class at 6 ("Nein, sie ist keine Japanerin. Sie ist Amerikanerin"); I just looked out my window, and the fog looks like something out of Silent Hill. The shrill 5:00 "end of work" siren-whistle that sounded as I was writing this entry did nothing to dispel that illusion. D:

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[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

We had something close to that...over the past month or so we've been seesawing between 60-65 degrees and about -5 (with windchill maybe 15-20 degrees below that). Add in wind, rain, and snow, and it certainly makes deciding on what to wear a much more interesting activity. XD