Put your records on - it's FRIDAY!

At this very moment, students are getting concerned phone calls from their parents - and most of the calls sound like this:

"Did you know they're calling for more than ten inches of snow?"

"Yes, mom.  I live here."

"You know you're not going to be able to get out anywhere, right?"

"No mom, I planned on riding my tauntaun* to Wal-mart."

"What's a tauntaun?  Is that slang?  Are you doing drugs?"

"No, mother."

"Well go to the grocery store and get lots of canned food and a flashlight - oh, and do you still have that first aid kit I sent you?"

"I ran out of supplies when I fell down three flights of stairs in front of Eggers**."

"You fell down some stairs!?!  Why didn't you tell me?!?"

"Okay mom, I'm going now...  I have, uh, class."

"I love you!  Don't do anything stupid on the ice!  Call me first thing in the morning!"

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*tauntaun:  A camel-like creature from the hit movie The Empire Strikes Back.  Luke Skywalker rides one at the beginning of the movie.   Here's a picture, and here's a video if you're even more interested.

**Eggers:  The dorm with a lot of stairs in front of it.  I know someone who tumbled down those stairs.




Update 1/30/2010:  You can watch some of the snow here: