rain day

Thunder woke me up at 5AM, and since I'd gone to bed past 1, I thought, "I wish we could have a rain day today..."  before I drifted back off to sleep for another hour.  It wasn't enough, but I got up with the alarm and got ready for school as I always do, regretting my late weekend nights (doing homework! really!) and wondering what that meant for the week to come.

Not our wash, but one nearby -- and I witnessed a very similar scene.

The trip to school was slower than usual, trying to avoid the huge puddles that had accumulated in the downpours.  The washes flanking the neighborhood looked disturbingly full, much more than I'd ever seen them.


But still, the trip took only a minute or two more than usual, and the parking lot was not a huge puddle... kudos to the landscape architects for that.  But the sandlot under the swings positively looked like quicksand, and sports field was under at least 2 feet of water. 

So it was no surprise to hear, as soon as I walked into the building (after shaking out my umbrella), that school had been cancelled for the day. 

Came home, changed clothes, and declared the offspring were staying home, too -- a good decision confirmed by the notification from their school that it, too, was closed for the day, within about 15 minutes of my decision. 

Today's was a 100-year rain. 

What did I do?  Slept for a big chunk of it.  Had my leaky front tire looked at.  Got a hair cut!  Graded all my students' papers and entered all the grades, too.  More homework, which, it turns out, is not due until next week.   Made a terrific dinner of baked salmon, rice pilaf, and broccoli. 

It was an odd day, but a nice pause, a catch-up kind of day.  But since this is the last week of the grading period, I'm going to have to figure out what to do with my lesson plans for the rest of the week now.  I have no doubt that it will all work out, eventually.  At least I won't be so sleep deprived tomorrow.