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Finally, a well placed Blizzard =)

PostPosted:Thu Feb 13, 2003 4:27 am
by Julius Seeker
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Well, I woke up at 5:00 AM to finish work on a paper due tommorow morning at 10:00, I think I'll still finish it off even though classes might be canceled. I haven't left a paper late like this since sometime during my first year. The main reason for it is that I've had a lot of lab work this semester, and I've been focusing on that more than anything. My essay is a 3,000 word commentary on the newly publshed J.R.R. Tolkien essay "Beowulf and the critics" which is essentially just a more elaborate version of his famous essay "Beowulf, the Monsters and the Critics," which served to catapult Beowulf from the widely unknown category into the mainstream.

Of course, it's all good. If classes are in, I'll still have finished it. If they're canceled, I can sleep and not have to sit through a day in which I've had 8 hours sleep in the past 48 hours. Also I can do some further touch ups making for an even more favourable grade. So yes, if this blizzard is successful, then it was indeed a well placed one =)

Damn, looks like it stopped, now it's just a lot of blowing snow; still, the plows haven't come down my street yet, so perhaps things will be closed up by 10:00.</div>

PostPosted:Thu Feb 13, 2003 6:24 am
by Julius Seeker
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Well, it's 7:30 now, they have closed Colleges and schools in some area's, but still no news on the University though they say they have a long list of cancelations up next.</div>

PostPosted:Thu Feb 13, 2003 6:33 am
by Julius Seeker
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>WHEW!!! Cancelled, goodnight =P</div>

PostPosted:Thu Feb 13, 2003 12:52 pm
by Tessian
<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>closed? you pussies. It's been snowing at least 3x a week all semester and we haven't had even an early close</div>

PostPosted:Thu Feb 13, 2003 2:42 pm
by Julius Seeker
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Were there gale force winds and -20 degree weather along with that snow?</div>

PostPosted:Thu Feb 13, 2003 11:28 pm
by Tessian
<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>We had those winds 2 days ago and the temperature is pretty damn close</div>

PostPosted:Fri Feb 14, 2003 3:21 am
by kali o.
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>UBC is on strike (TA issues). I get a few days off without shitty weather ; P</div>

PostPosted:Fri Feb 14, 2003 10:35 am
by Julius Seeker
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Did you get 75 cm (2.5 feet) of snow in a matter of about 10-20 hours?</div>

PostPosted:Fri Feb 14, 2003 11:13 am
by Julius Seeker
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I sometimes miss living in Nanaimo, great weather, and the High School was awesome (Dover Bay).</div>

PostPosted:Fri Feb 14, 2003 12:01 pm
by Tessian
<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>you said nothing of 2 1/2 feet of snow</div>

PostPosted:Fri Feb 14, 2003 12:53 pm
by Julius Seeker
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Sure I did, in my first post I said we had a "blizzard" which usually means at least 50 cm of snow and gale force winds.</div>