Why, yes, everyone and her uncle's nephew's brother's cousin's former roommate have been doing these for the past several months. Why, yes, it is almost the spring equinox and therefore too late. Why, yes, I have already posted this on Facebook, where it is likely to get all the following I'm ever likely to get.
I still want to post this here so it's easy for me to find again. Besides, there's ice outside again right now.
I wrote this - or started to - on January 28, 2014, just as the first nasty winter storm was hitting our part of NC. School was in progress, but it was very difficult to teach when the students (and myself!) were all extremely eager to go see the snow, and extremely eager for a snowday. (No one ever tells you how hard it is to act adult and professional when you're feeling possibly more antsy than the students.) Alas, there was pretty much no snow during the day, despite all the forecasts: it saved its wrath for later. This was very much on my mind.
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"Let It Snow, Or, A Teacher's Plea" by Mouse
(to the tune of "Let It Go" from Disney's Frozen, as sung by Idina Menzel)
The snow's too light on the sidewalk tonight
Scarce a snowflake to be seen
A town of anticipation
But the pines still shine in green
The wind is howling in a swirling storm outside
Can't just block it out; Heaven knows I've tried.
Don't let hope in – don't go to see
Keep on being that good-girl worker bee
Conceal, don't feel – don't let it show –
That you want snow!
Let it snow, let it snow
Don't hold it back anymore
Let it snow, let it snow
Go ahead and make it pour!
I don't care what the forecasts say
Let the storm rage on –
so tomorrow, we can go out and play!
It's funny how some flurries make all my work seem small
And the tasks that so control me can't get to me at all
It's time to see what it can do
Test all the records, and break through
No roads, no work, no school for me – I'm free!
Let it snow, let it snow
Let it dump from the wind and sky!
Let it snow, let it snow,
Or you'll have to see me cry
Let it stand, and let me stay
Let the storm rage on…
Bring more than flurries from the air down to the ground
Let snowflakes spiral all in frozen fractals all around
Let nothing neutralize this icy polar blast
I don't want to go back;
Just make a snow day last!
Let it snow, let it snow
Be all iced by the break of dawn
Let it snow, let it snow
Please cover up that lawn
Dazzle me by the light of day
Let the storm rage on
So tomorrow we can go out and play!
I still want to post this here so it's easy for me to find again. Besides, there's ice outside again right now.
I wrote this - or started to - on January 28, 2014, just as the first nasty winter storm was hitting our part of NC. School was in progress, but it was very difficult to teach when the students (and myself!) were all extremely eager to go see the snow, and extremely eager for a snowday. (No one ever tells you how hard it is to act adult and professional when you're feeling possibly more antsy than the students.) Alas, there was pretty much no snow during the day, despite all the forecasts: it saved its wrath for later. This was very much on my mind.
***
"Let It Snow, Or, A Teacher's Plea" by Mouse
(to the tune of "Let It Go" from Disney's Frozen, as sung by Idina Menzel)
The snow's too light on the sidewalk tonight
Scarce a snowflake to be seen
A town of anticipation
But the pines still shine in green
The wind is howling in a swirling storm outside
Can't just block it out; Heaven knows I've tried.
Don't let hope in – don't go to see
Keep on being that good-girl worker bee
Conceal, don't feel – don't let it show –
That you want snow!
Let it snow, let it snow
Don't hold it back anymore
Let it snow, let it snow
Go ahead and make it pour!
I don't care what the forecasts say
Let the storm rage on –
so tomorrow, we can go out and play!
It's funny how some flurries make all my work seem small
And the tasks that so control me can't get to me at all
It's time to see what it can do
Test all the records, and break through
No roads, no work, no school for me – I'm free!
Let it snow, let it snow
Let it dump from the wind and sky!
Let it snow, let it snow,
Or you'll have to see me cry
Let it stand, and let me stay
Let the storm rage on…
Bring more than flurries from the air down to the ground
Let snowflakes spiral all in frozen fractals all around
Let nothing neutralize this icy polar blast
I don't want to go back;
Just make a snow day last!
Let it snow, let it snow
Be all iced by the break of dawn
Let it snow, let it snow
Please cover up that lawn
Dazzle me by the light of day
Let the storm rage on
So tomorrow we can go out and play!
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