she's here

not raining quite yet, but the sky is a very ominous shade of grey and the wind is pretty windy for the time of day. [note: voice in my head says "grey and day rhyme. i'd move day to the second sentence."]

am off in a moment to my first class. i can drive and park close to the building, thus avoiding the two streets i have to cross, the flight of stairs i have to climb, and the sidewalk crowded with freshmen i ordinarily have to negotiate along the way. i'll still have two flights of stairs to go down to get to the room when i get there, and two flights back up again to get out. the building's elevator requires a key to operate, which on the one hand makes sense -- but on the other hand makes no sense at all, that an able-bodied professor with an office on the third floor can use the elevator, but a student on crutches with a class in the basement can't.

i will then proceed to the library to meet first with a student and then with a classmate. i might get a nap in between these meetings. then another class, and then i'll see what the storm is doing over land. i may go or i may not -- either way, unless the power's already out, i'll let y'all know.

oh, and: in yesterday's mail i got a thank-you note from the leasing agent who showed me an apartment on saturday. i like the building better and better. :-)

and i'm outta here.

i lied before. it was totally raining when i left this morning, but it was (at that time) just a gentle light rain; only the steeliness of the sky (and the fact that we've been tracking the storm with satellite technology) signalled that this was no mere drizzle.

it's a little rainier now, and the wind has been picking up steadily; the present wind is kind of spooky. it's not wuthering, or anything, but it's an eerie kind of persistent wind -- which is a feature of such storms, i suppose, that the winds are sustained, as opposed to your garden-variety rainstorms, which are blustery.

the university finally got a clue and closed. classes are cancelled as of 1:00 this afternoon, so i'm off the hook for my 2:00 class (which happens to be my least favorite, so yay!). i had my 11:00 meeting with a student, but needn't meet with my classmate at 1:00 (in fact she called off to go home and nail her windows shut or something), so i will shortly go home, put some things in a bag, call my parents, and hit the road. i think that's the best thing. part of me wants to stay here and watch the storm come in, and then go up to DC once it's blown mostly through -- but the state DC's going to be in is a bit of a turn-off, to say nothing of my earnest desire not to be stuck in my apartment with no electricity and a gimpy leg. i mean, if i can't tell you all "wow, it's really windy now. wow, it's even windier", then what's the point of riding it out?

so, i think i'm going.