Day 2 - 290 -- Not the S-Word!?!

Awoke this morning feeling a little cool. Once up and moving around things began feeling a bit better, but not really warm. The day was mainly cloudy and rain began around supper. I spent the day indoors grading the huge pile for one class. Each paper seems to take 30 minutes or more and I still have way too many to get them finished for class Tuesday -- my absolute deadline is Friday, but I do hope I can get through them all before then. Tomorrow afternoon and evening should help whittle the pile down to just a few for the next day.

While grading I had the TV on in the background -- a type of white noise that drowns out any distractions from outside. The weather network noted that rain was expected evening, overnight and into tomorrow. I was somewhat dismayed to hear the S-word added for some of the overnight hours, turning back to rain by morning. Now it really is too early to use this word or see the physical manifestation of what the word represents. I can't even bring myself to say or even type the word -- like that alone would make it very, very real. Others across the country have had this word and precipitation thrown around in their areas, with enough falling to actually measure. <shudder> 

I've chosen a song about rain for today -- but if you were to substitute the s-word for rain, it would sum up my feeling exactly. Enjoy!

Hold Back the Rain -- Duran Duran