So remember those winter weather advisories I was talking about?

They came true! But not in a fun, romp-in-the-snow sort of way...it was more of an icy, freeze-your-ass-off kind of way. They cancelled the first days of school last Tuesday and Wednesday, and this mattered to me because I work on campus, and thus my work was cancelled as well...at least on Tuesday. Wednesday the restaurant decided it would be a good idea to risk the lives of its humble employees on the treacherous thoroughfares, despite the fact that the offices of the entire city of Austin and the state government deemed it necessary to be closed. Running a restaurant is almost as important as running the state though. Oh wait, NO IT ABSOLUTELY IS NOT. We had 13 guests total (4 tables), when on a normal day we have around 100. That was TOTALLY worth going in for.

But anyway, on the days prior to this abomination, I did absolutely nothing. My friends and I sat around Jaclyn's apartment and drank, played games, ate, and watched TV. They were probably the three most counter-productive days of my life, but what was I gonna do? I couldn't really GO anywhere or ACCOMPLISH anything, so drinking was really the only option. You better believe the liquor stores were still open! We called it the Lockdown, and if you were there you'd understand why I capitalized it.

So now it's back to boring life as usual, but the weather remains crappy as hell. I haven't seen the sun in days...I now understand why people in the Northwest become so depressed at this time of the year. Not that I'm depressed, but cloudy, cold weather day after day really starts to get to you. Actually, speaking of depression, I heard on NPR yesterday that January 22nd was statistically the most depressing day of the year. Hoooraaaay winter! Now is when I begin to long for the dog days of summer--the long, lazy afternoons of sitting by the pool, or floating down the Guadalupe River with a beer in hand, beneath the verdant cyprus trees lining its banks. Aaaahhh, perfection. I can't wait.