So, this is the “before” image, only taken from outside with the sun out rather than through my dining room window:

(Man.  That was literally a hipshot; I had my headphones on, with the cord running through my hoodie, and rather than untangle everything I just pulled my phone out of my pocket, pointed it at the snow at more or less waist height and took the picture.  It came out prettier than a lot of deliberate photos I’ve taken.  Wow.)

After looks like this:

I really hadn’t realized when I went to bed last night how bad the snow was going to be; if I had, I’d have gotten out there and cleared the couple of inches that were already on the driveway, since that older compacted snow made getting rid of the newer stuff twice as annoying.

That said, this is mostly blown snow and not new-fallen snow; note that it was six or seven inches deep against the garage (which you can’t see in either picture) but really thin off to the right over there, and toward where the driveway meets the street there was probably an eight or nine inch swing from the left side of the driveway to the right.  Some of that is going to be because the street got plowed before I got out there, but this measure was taken quite a distance from the road:

Judging from the weather reports for the next few days, I’d be really surprised if I was back at school before Wednesday of next week, since Monday and Tuesday’s cold are supposed to make yesterday look mild– and it was definitely temperature that closed us yesterday and not snowfall.

Anybody want to help me start campaigning with the state to push the ISTEP test back a couple of weeks?  Extra school days in June really don’t help anybody.  I need the time before the test– at this point I’d almost rather lose Spring Break; at least that would give me some class days before the multiple choice administration of the test.  I just hope I stay healthy for the spring; I’m not going to be able to lose a single minute between now and ISTEP.

Shit.