yesterday it was summer, today it’s 17 degrees i am not kidding. well, ok, it wasn’t summer yesterday, but it was last saturday. it was seriously over 90 degrees, according to the thermometer on my shaded porch. and today it was 17 degrees when i got up for work. dallas freaks out whenever there’s any kind of winter precipitation. yesterday we had the barest hint of freezing rain, and while it was true that there were thin glazes of ice on a lot of surfaces today, that wasn’t any reason for the whole city to shut down. but it did. all the school districts, and most of the universities… except, of course, for mine. which explains why i was awake, crabby, and outdoors at 7:30 a.m. i wasn’t about to drive when i didn’t know what the conditions were (and knowing how dallas people drive on ice, which is to say, the same way they drive every other day of the year, too fast and too close), so i left the house at 7:30 and walked 1/2 mile to the bus stop. pure misery. the wind was blowing hard enough to make my ears numb and tears run freely from my eyes. it felt like they were freezing on my cheeks. i’m glad i had some hot tea with me. my steamy peppermint savior. my clever plan to avoid having to drive today backfired when i got to work and realized that the university had made the call at 7:35 to delay opening until 10 a.m. i’d been checking my email and voice mail all the way up until the time i left the house, but missed it by 5 minutes. i was so mad! ben let me leave at 3:30 today to make up for the fact that i […]