SNOW PLEASE

So at 7:00am tomorrow/today, our school will be notifying us as to whether or not we'll be having class or not. I am personally ALL IN FAVOR OF A SNOW DAY!! It's supposed to continually snow from tomorrow morning until Saturday afternoon (or something to that effect). If I don't have to go to class tomorrow and Friday, I will be one happy chica!! :)

In an effort to conjure as much Snow Day Good Karma as possible, here are some pictures from our last snow day!!

S.A.D?

So I typically love the cold weather--I love the snow, I love bundling up, I love Christmas, spiked hot chocolate, boots, etc.  But this year...I don't know, I'm just not feeling it!

My roommate was talking the other day about Seasonal Affective Disorder, which is essentially people who get depressed during the winter months because of less sunlight, having to stay indoors, the cold weather, etc.  I don't think I actually have S.A.D. but I definitely think that this past winter has not been as "happy" as my previous.  I can't pinpoint an exact reason either--it could be a multitude of possibilities, I guess.

But I don't want to dwell on the past, because although I just had a snow day (on March 2nd, mind you), it's SPRING SEMESTER and daylight savings is around the corner, and the warm weather is ALMOST HERE!!  I'm tired of feeling trapped in my dorm room, I'm tired of feeling like I don't experience the city to its fullest because it's too damn cold to walk around!  I remember last spring was so great!  Despite the fact that my friends and I were essentially running on no sleep the entire semester (staying up until about 4am or later every night, like I am again tonight), I remember having this feeling of spring, of warmth, of optimism, of realizing that I can in fact GET THROUGH my classes and there would be a reward afterwards--SUMMER!!  I have this urge, this desire to feel that way again--my life has been sucking a little too much lately.  And I'm not saying that in just the "my life sucks" kind of way, I mean it in a literal sense as well!  My life (and lifestyle) is physically, emotionally and mentally DRAINING!

I'm the type of person who likes to keep herself busy.  There's nothing wrong with that, but I've been realizing that I do it to a fault:  I load myself up with so many things that I run myself into the ground until the point of complete exhaustion, and then I fall apart at the seams.  I've been getting a little bit better at managing myself and keeping myself in check, but I slip up occasionally.  Here's my life right now:

-15 credits (I just dropped my 9am ITA 102 for the second time because I never went!  Sorry, I just cannot do 9am!)

-PALS Coordinator (Essentially a 9-5 job, whenever I'm not in class)

-DA (Tues, Thurs, and Sat nights from 11pm-2am)

-Two Shows, sadly one of them is ending tonight at 7:30 (Vagina Monologues) and the other is really just getting started but will be rehearsing practically every single day (including Sat & Sun)

-Homework??

Anyway, I'm not trying to complain about my life in this post, because to be honest, I LOVE everything that I'm doing and it takes a lot for me to give anything up (even if I hate it on occasion).  Basically, I want it to be spring so I can get some Vitamin D from the sun and be happy again! :)

Snow Day = :D

So according to weather.com, we are going to receive approximately a foot of snow in the NY Metropolitan area, so thankfully Pace University cancelled classes for tomorrow! YAY! :D

Of course, the jury is still out on whether or not I'll have work tomorrow morning--I love PALS, but I would love a day to SLEEP (since I forgot to do that this weekend).

Speaking of...

This weekend, my HS Drama Dept. came up to NYC on their annual field trip, which was GREAT because I got to see my brother and all our friends!  I am supremely jealous, however, that my brother got to see Guys & Dolls, West Side Story AND In The Heights all in one weekend (when I still have not seen any of them!).  Not only was my brother (and all his HS friends) here in the city this weekend, but also my two friends Joe and Gabe were up looking at colleges AND my friend Stephany was visiting from Harvard!  So basically, my whole hometown was in the city ALL IN ONE WEEKEND!  Insanity!!  I constantly beg and plead with my friends back home to come and visit me in the city, and they all separately decide to come up on the same weekend?  Like I said, INSANITY, but soo much fun!

So now I'm sitting in my dorm room, being completely unproductive (which is BAD because I'm way behind in my Screenwriting class right now) but for now, I'm relishing in my Snow-Day Bliss, listening to Billy Joel, and just enjoying my 2:40am-ness!

Speaking of the Piano Man, my mother is the most amazing woman on Earth!  She texted me this morning and told me that she purchased us tickets to the Billy Joel/Elton John concert this summer in DC at the National's Ballpark!!  Now, I've been fortunate enough to have seen Billy Joel in concert already in my lifetime, but I have never seen Sir Elton John before, and I was reading an article that I found on Google that stated that they could be sitting at adjacent pianos ON STAGE--two music LEGENDS on the same stage performing TOGETHER, their own separate stuff, and then TOGETHER AGAIN at the end!!  Needless to say, I am so incredibly excited for this concert and so incredibly grateful to my mother for buying these tickets for us!

So since I have not slept at all this weekend (and had a blast while doing so), I am going to go to sleep now.  Enjoy your snow days East Coast!  I hope everyone's school is as cool as mine and gives you a well-deserved DAY OFF!!

:)