Winter Can Just Fuck Right Off

I drove in the snow for the first time today.  Take a guess how that went.  I also ended up driving before the plows had really had a chance to get out there and clean up the roads.

It took 20 minutes to drive a mile.

Can I move back to Emporia and go to a school I don't need to drive to?  Fishtailing sucks.  Hills suck.  My tiny little truck hates hills and snow and this experience basically ruined today.

Here's a picture I took before I tried to drive when I was still mildly peeved about the snow:

This is as close to a picture of my face as you are likely to see on this blog unless you know me IRL

*insert more whining about driving in the snow here*

Anyway, this semester sucks less than last semester, I'm unwilling to say it's going well, but it's a lot better.  I'm having no problem with calculus (I didn't fully understand some of what we covered in class today, but hopefully it'll make sense later).  Actually, calculus is fun.  So apparently my brain just doesn't do trigonometry for some reason.  I have like 3 papers due in the next week or so that I haven't started, I'm behind on the reading for all my classes... I'm the worst student ever.  I have a project for my climatology class involving keeping a daily log of the minimum and maximum temperatures, as well as a daily precipitation total.  I've been doing fairly well on that, though my thermometer always reads about 10 degrees warmer because of the albedo of the stuff that's around it, among other things.

Anyway, I don't hate KU like I did last semester, but I'm not ready to say I like it, either.

I started making another blanket right before school started.  It's almost done, but I'm not working on it until either spring break or the semester is over.  I don't want a repeat of last semester.  I watch Star Trek too much as it is.

So, weather.  It's cold.  It's currently snowing.  Since I only find snow magical between Thanksgiving and Christmas, it can go to hell and die.  Lawrence is basically made of hills.  I'm pretty sure I will not be going anywhere, which sucks because I missed classes on Monday when my truck froze shut.  February is a shitty month.  I hate February.  Only good thing about this month is what's going to happen soon.  That's all I'm saying, I'm not sure who reads this blog, but I don't want a repeat of what happened last time I didn't think certain people were paying attention.  Matt's mom was not thrilled, and she'd be really hurt if I let that happen to her again.

I'm exhausted and it's only 4:00.  Probably doesn't help that I'm drinking a beer (well, apple ale, whatever that means).  I need to do some homework, or pretend that I'm productive.  Actually read the 8,994,345 books I need to read.