Today is our second snow day of the season. Of course, Mark still had to drive into work where he and his boss were the only employees who actually showed up. Everybody else claimed they were working at home, which he cannot really do yet. Hopefully next winter he will be able to stay home on such bad driving days.

Andy needs to go into work today since he was sick Monday and Tuesday because he lost his voice (not a good condition for a front desk person), then Wednesday and Thursday were his days off. Maybe business will be so slow at the hotel because of the storm they will tell him to stay home.

I do not have much schoolwork to do this unexpected three-day weekend, so I hope to get a lot of writing and reading done, although we’ll see how that actually works out.

Two different former students told me the past few days that they actually read my blog. *sniff* While it’s nice to have a readership, it is even nicer that they contacted me. If this blog encourages people to stay in touch with me, then it is well worthwhile. Of course, this does not absolve me from the task of keeping in touch with them too. I need to work harder at corresponding with both sets of friends, my former students and my VoP readership. I spend so much of my limited free time working on my magazine and blogs that my correspondence suffers, and that is bad since correspondence is 50% of my social life, the other 50%
being seeing people at school. If I don’t nurture the correspondence, what will happen when I retire in a few years?