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Insomnia, I know thy name...
Jan. 28th, 2004 03:06 amWell, it's officially 3 AM EST, and here I am, awake. Started out Wednesday night with a massive migraine. Went to bed almost as soon as I got home, and stayed home from class on Thursday. Friday passed rather quietly, with me in a rather drowsy mood. Then the snow came on the weekend, and I've not been back to class since Wednesday night.
The snow has certainly been eventful. The first 5 - 6 inches fell by Monday morning, and it took university until 6 AM to decide they weren't holding classes that day. (Argh!) After sleeping in a bit, DH and I opted to dig the Jeep out. Took about an hour, but with the new snowshovel, it went fairly quickly. We let the car run for a bit, then treated ourselves to Starbucks for the hard work.
Tuesday got a little more interesting. The snow changed over to sleet and freezing rain early in the morning, and the constant drizzle kept freezing in a light layer over everything. The Metro, which had been running consistently 30 minutes behind, started having major issues. The worst of which happened on the yellow line, where a train got stuck crossing the Potomac into the District. Oops! Guessing the whole de-icing cars don't do a hell of a lot when the freezing is constant... Buses were having issues, too; a lot of the side streets aren't quite as clear as they should be and, with the northern Virginia drivers, things got a tad messy. All in all, DH was glad to stay home. =)
Not sure how today is going to play out. The sleet finally transitioned back over to snow, adding another 1 - 2 inches of accumulation out there, on TOP of the ice. Scraping of the complex parking lot didn't go well, and I'm not so sure they bothered using salt or other melting compounds. DH is planning on going to work -- though I'm rather nervous for him -- and I have an interview at 11:30, followed by class at 6:30. As the temperatures drop again -- and fail to rise out of the 30F range -- I'm not sure how confident I feel driving around tomorrow. During the day, I think things will be okay, but as darkness hits, I don't wanna be out there. Even if I *do* have 4WD. It helps in snow, but nothing can really help you on ice.
On the other hand, I got a lot of my reading assignments done. I've been plowing through The Gathering Storm and it's made me quite pensive. I see a lot of parallels between the "gathering storm" with Hitler, and the issues which the international community dealt with with Saddam Hussein -- all the way to exposing a lot of inadequacies with the League of Nations/United Nations. I'm sure there are many who would disagree with me, but reading this has certainly put an interesting slant on current events. And, regardless of how pompous Churchill can sound, I cannot doubt that he was one hell of a statesman -- sober or drunk.
Also working through Locke's Second Treatise. Very interesting to compare/contrast with Hobbes. As my professor is loathe for us to say, "There are similarities, and there are differences" -- both of which are rather striking. It's interesting how Locke arrives at his idea of a natural state, as well as the natural law. His ideas are built, it appears, on a much more classical bent, believing that logic and reason are the things which put man at the top of the food chain (as it were). Looking forward to finishing the thing and moving on, and seeing where the class goes from here.
::sigh::
That's enough rambling for now. Might be more later unless my mind reaches the same exhaustion level as the rest of my body...
The snow has certainly been eventful. The first 5 - 6 inches fell by Monday morning, and it took university until 6 AM to decide they weren't holding classes that day. (Argh!) After sleeping in a bit, DH and I opted to dig the Jeep out. Took about an hour, but with the new snowshovel, it went fairly quickly. We let the car run for a bit, then treated ourselves to Starbucks for the hard work.
Tuesday got a little more interesting. The snow changed over to sleet and freezing rain early in the morning, and the constant drizzle kept freezing in a light layer over everything. The Metro, which had been running consistently 30 minutes behind, started having major issues. The worst of which happened on the yellow line, where a train got stuck crossing the Potomac into the District. Oops! Guessing the whole de-icing cars don't do a hell of a lot when the freezing is constant... Buses were having issues, too; a lot of the side streets aren't quite as clear as they should be and, with the northern Virginia drivers, things got a tad messy. All in all, DH was glad to stay home. =)
Not sure how today is going to play out. The sleet finally transitioned back over to snow, adding another 1 - 2 inches of accumulation out there, on TOP of the ice. Scraping of the complex parking lot didn't go well, and I'm not so sure they bothered using salt or other melting compounds. DH is planning on going to work -- though I'm rather nervous for him -- and I have an interview at 11:30, followed by class at 6:30. As the temperatures drop again -- and fail to rise out of the 30F range -- I'm not sure how confident I feel driving around tomorrow. During the day, I think things will be okay, but as darkness hits, I don't wanna be out there. Even if I *do* have 4WD. It helps in snow, but nothing can really help you on ice.
On the other hand, I got a lot of my reading assignments done. I've been plowing through The Gathering Storm and it's made me quite pensive. I see a lot of parallels between the "gathering storm" with Hitler, and the issues which the international community dealt with with Saddam Hussein -- all the way to exposing a lot of inadequacies with the League of Nations/United Nations. I'm sure there are many who would disagree with me, but reading this has certainly put an interesting slant on current events. And, regardless of how pompous Churchill can sound, I cannot doubt that he was one hell of a statesman -- sober or drunk.
Also working through Locke's Second Treatise. Very interesting to compare/contrast with Hobbes. As my professor is loathe for us to say, "There are similarities, and there are differences" -- both of which are rather striking. It's interesting how Locke arrives at his idea of a natural state, as well as the natural law. His ideas are built, it appears, on a much more classical bent, believing that logic and reason are the things which put man at the top of the food chain (as it were). Looking forward to finishing the thing and moving on, and seeing where the class goes from here.
::sigh::
That's enough rambling for now. Might be more later unless my mind reaches the same exhaustion level as the rest of my body...