Dear SIUE,

 Dear SIUE,

First of all let me start by saying that I really appreciate you closing the campus yesterday during that horrible snow storm that we had. It was really considerate of you. I especially appreciated the fact that you texted my phone at 5:00 a.m. to let me know of this closure. It really got my day off to a productive start.

I am, however, wondering what you did with your day off. One would think that you would have used this free time to clean off the campus roads and parking lots…maybe even throw out some salt. I guess you chose not to do this though. Instead you just pushed all of the snow into the two rows of Parking Lot A that have parking meters and went about your business. Lets be honest….why would someone want to park in a metered parking space close to the building they are going to when they could park in a red lot and walk the three miles across the lots that you didn’t bother to salt.

Now I am not blaming you for the horrific, ego shattering, face plant of a fall that I took this morning. I don’t hold you accountable for the miserable hour I spent taking notes in the lecture hall wearing wet jeans and a hoodie that were covered with weird tiny gravel pieces. I am sure it was my eagerness to get to my Bio lecture that made me walk less than cautiously across the lot and ended with this pain in my shoulder that radiates all the way through my wrist.

So thank you SIUE for not making me go to school yesterday. I can only hope that you will be as understanding and not make me go to school when I inevitably have to have rotator cuff surgery in the near future.

Sincerely,

Kim