I may not have fully figured out how to prevent myself from becoming homeless post-working-at-TWU, but I did figure out one thing this morning: Not working in Denton is going to rachet down my stress level about 10 notches.
Take today, for example. We all know/knew today was going to bring freezing precipitation to north Texas. Before I left the house at 7:45 today, I called the woman who knows everything at TWU to find out if she’d heard any rumors about shutting down the university, and she hadn’t. I drove to Denton without hitting anything dangerous, but I did hear the light patter of freezing precipitation on my car most of the way to work. And when I arrived in the parking lot, it really started coming down, freezing rain/sleet everywhere. I nearly drove away without even coming into the building. But, I had two meetings today, so I decided to be responsible (something perhaps we’ll later redefine as stupid).
It’s now sticking to the windshields of the cars outside, wrecks abound in Tarrant County, and I’m STILL AT WORK.
WHY?!?!?!
People can drive on snow. I’m actually really good at driving on snow. But NOBODY can drive on ice. It doesn’t matter how talented you are or how powerful your car is. Ice doesn’t care.
I’m so pissed off. The longer they keep me here, the more stressful and difficult my drive home will be. I detest icy roadways.
I’ve got (I just counted) 16 days left of driving to Denton for work. Thank God. There’s 32 hours of my life I consider wasted. Plus whatever it takes for me to get home tonight. GRRR!