Oh! Glorious day!  It has snowed! It’s time to forget about everything, drop everything and play, explore, and frolic about every which way through nature’s splendorous white confetti that’s falling from the sky.  At least, that’s what I’m going to do. 

                 Snowballs, snowmen, snow angels, snow forts: just a few of the great things that can be done with this amazing form of precipitation.  And the stuff’s free.  Yes, it’s free, and there’s a lot of it.  It blankets everything, making it accessible as hell; there’s no reason you all shouldn’t be outside right now playing in it.  Take advantage of the stuff; it only falls a few times a year, and if our globe keeps on warming up there’s the chance that it could fall even less frequently than that, or perhaps not at all—and what an inconvenient truth that is. 

                 Being that it was the first snowfall I’ve seen here at Wabash, I decided to walk around the campus and take some pictures.  One of my silly fraternity brothers tagged along, carrying with him a snowball, a sort of rarity for him since he’s from a place where snow seldom falls, that sad, sad place being Texas.  There are a few denizens of Texas here at Kappa Sigma, actually, and they all seemed pretty excited to see the snow.  I would be, too, if I came from a place where the average snowfall, in inches, is very, very close to zero. 

                 I can’t imagine a winter without snow.  It must be hard for people who live in climates not conducive to snowfall, what with all the movies out that glorify it, making it look like so much fun.  Movies like A Christmas Story, Snow Dogs, and Groundhog Day must make it hard; or movies like The Thing, The Shining, and Fargo.  Yeah, it must be hard for them to see those.