1. Go to sleep with weather reports of tiny frozen missiles of precipitation dancing in my head (and on the roof).
2. Wake up at 5:45, turn on TV, groggily scan through the channels, continually missing the school closing listing for the two districts that the girls' schools are in.
3. Finally see that both districts are two hours delayed.
4. Go back to sleep. Have an odd dream about feeding a cat a grilled cheese sandwich.
5. Wake up again in an hour, get Rebecca up, shower, get dressed, etc.
6. Drive Rebecca to the bus stop through the pellets of sleet. Notice that the roads are slushy, but in no way could be considered icy.
7. Rebecca comments that there don't seem to be any buses on the road. Hers is nowhere in sight.
8. Drive her to school, thinking that the bus had misjudged the two hour delay and was either early or late.
9. Pull into the school parking lot which looks suspiciously empty. Squint at the tiny white board with the faint message "NO SCHOOL TODAY". Grit teeth and clench jaw to prevent explosion of profanity.
10. And from that auspicious beginning, my day went downhill.

Movies: It's In the Water. Another example of a movie that should never have received funding. I lasted through about 15 minutes of this and was agog, agog I tell you, at the complete lack of acting, plot or coherence. More proof that I have no input to the movies that are in my Netflix queue.

Floundering. What an odd little movie. Made in 1994, it used the LA riots as a backdrop to a black comedy/social commentary/stream of consciousness semi-story. With cameos by Billy Bob Thornton, Steve Buscemi, John Cusak, Ethan Hawke, Jeremy Piven. And if you watch very carefully, at the very end you will see a blond Viggo Mortensen who has about 3 lines, long before he was destined to become Aragorn.