THE FIRST SNOWFALL OF THE YEAR!!

I was sitting in my room in my pajamas about to go to sleep early like a good prudent child when I heard party noises outside my window. Which was pretty confusing, considering how it’s a Wednesday. So I looked out my window to the excitement below and heard people bellowing “IT’S SNOWING!” So then I walked quickly over to my door, opened it, and found Sorcha standing outside (apparently she’d just knocked, but I missed it). So then we decided to go see the snow, so I pulled on boots and a coat and a scarf and ran down the stairs with her. We danced around outside for a while with the mingling excited crowds and then headed off on a “snow walk”, which was sidetracked when we saw Sorcha’s friends making cookies through one of the Turck windows. So we stopped in for a cookie apiece and then headed off on our snow walk (so named by Sorcha), which was alternately a snow dash, snow walk, snow airplane-run, snow dance, and snow skip. We got to the farthest reaches of our campus, where we discovered a set of lights that made the snow look even more magical and swirly and fantastic, so we stood in awe for several minutes before romping around the lights in great excitement. It was one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen. Then we walked back (at this point I could not feel my legs).

On the way back, I mentioned yawping and Sorcha got happy and asked, “Whitman??” and then we sounded our barbaric yawps over the snowy rooftops. Sorcha said, “I’m so glad I have someone to YAWP with!” Which I think expressed my emotions perfectly. Then we finally made it back to the dorm, full of dances and swallowed snowflakes and joy (with the very real possibility that my fingers were about to fall off), where my roommate met me with a hug and the promise of tea.

Hooray for snow and tea and wonderful friends and magicalness and barbaric yawps.

Love you all.

 This was my outfit. It was hastily put together, but very stylish, I think. Perhaps not temperature appropriate, although definitely weather appropriate (notice the snowflakes on my pants!).