Never a snow day in Madison.

As I sit at my dining table reading the newspaper and blogging, I have a good view of the schoolkids walking to the bus stop at the middle of the block. Their heads are bowed down as they trudge along at 7 a.m. I imagine them feeling unusually glum after all that snow that fell yesterday. One more missed opportunity for a snow day. Here in Madison, they come around awfully fast with the snow plows. If there is any kind of a gap between the snow fall and school time, you're not going to get a snow day. And college kids, forget it. I've been teaching at the law school for more than twenty years, and I can't remember a single snow day at the university!