Of Rain and Snow and a Plague

"When it rains, it pours."

-I write this for a reason. The first is that it actually is raining outside. Another snow day, due to snow followed by rain, which led to icing on the roads and general icky-ness outside, but led to a nice day off for anyone involved with schools. Not only is it raining, it is pouring. It was pouring at 5:30AM when I was outside de-icing and shoveling. It still is, and it won't stop for awhile. So in a way, when it rains, it does pour, at least for today.

-The second reason for writing it was to use it as a metaphor (in that geeky English way of mine). What I mean by that is, when one thing happens that is bad, many more bad things follow until the world seems to fall apart. Now, this happened once before during November and December, though the whole year of 2007 from April onward was involved. This time it's (much) smaller scale, but still aggravating. Start with my mother leaving the country on a business trip, a terrible thing in itself, for a week and a half. During that week my sister gets strep throat and my dad injures his back rather badly. The following week almost everyone in school gets sick with either strep throat, mono, or some sort of fever/cough thing. My two best friends are sick now, one with a weird disease called tonsillitis, I think, and another with mono. In addition to that, because of the mono my birthday plans have been altered. The problem: we're staying in a ski resort with nothing else around it, and she can't ski. The solution: I don't know, but it's somewhere within 30 miles of the resort (or else we're in trouble).

Throughout this plague that has hit our school (or, more specifically, my class), I haven't gotten sick yet, which is amazing considering every single one of my friends has been sick in one way or another within the past two weeks. Nothing ever goes around my school, but this is the first time I can truly say that something is going around.

It's kind of funny to hear someone say "I'm going into school no matter what, even if I'm sick, and I don't care who tells me to stay home" only to be home sick for a week or two. I'm on the verge of a mental breakdown, and I even found myself teaching math. Math is my worst subject, and if anyone should NEVER teach it, that person is me. Luckily, winter break is next week, so the madness will hopefully end then and there.